Convicted serial killer Charles Manson’s recent interview in which he rants about the dangers posed by global warming created the public stir of curiosity that the ravings of a madman usually generate.
In the interview, in the Spanish edition of Vanity Fair, Manson declares, “[I]f we don’t wake up to that there’s going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we’re doing bad things to the atmosphere,” and goes on to say that, “The automobiles and fossil fuels are destroying the atmosphere and we won’t have air to breathe.”
Manson holding such views speaks nothing of their validity. However, as Brendan O’Neill notes in the Telegraph, it is the banality of those statements that underscores a disturbing trend in political rhetoric.
Perhaps this interview will jolt people into realising just how strange the rise and rise of apocalyptic thinking really is.
For an antidote to apocalyptic rhetoric on climate, see the Cooler Heads Coalition’s website, GlobalWarming.org.
