Why You Gotta Be Like That?

So last night I watched a program I had DVRed from the History Channel about crude oil. Just over the first half of the program was quite interesting and informative. Then it just devolved into some sermon from The First Church of Al Gore, which was led by some big-wig at a solar power company, about "going green" and "greenhouse gases" and how fossil fuel pollution alone will bring catastrophe and calamity to us all.

I'm not saying that we need to go through gas like rappers go through Cristal in their videos. Being independent of foreign oil would be a very good thing for the U.S. What I don't cotton to is the assumption that humans alone are changing the global temperature by their actions or that we're the main cause of the change. That's an incredibly arrogant view. Don't people realize how insignificant we are in comparison to the other forces on this planet? Do people forget how much energy is unleashed in a volcanic eruption, an earthquake, a flood or a tsunami?

In spite of all the proselytizing in the second half of the program, there were still some interesting points made. It was a nice reminder of how much of our modern society revolves around petroleum. Even if we didn't use another drop of oil for energy, we'd still need the stuff for plastics and such. It's just a shame that those nuggets of information were buried so deep in the dross. Come on History Channel, you're better than that.