xhonzi said:
...If you believe that mankind is destroying the earth, and are a scientist tasked with proving it with concrete data... but the data proves to be elusive... Wouldn't you believe it to be the right thing to tell a little lie, especially if you believe that that lie will save the future of mankind?
In this case, I would also say No.
The thing that really gets Sluggo cheesed-off is this misuse of information about the environment as a political wedge, one way or the other. Not polluting the planet and conserving natural resources ought to be a common sense and a moral issue, not a political issue. Is mankind destroying the planet? To me, it doesn't really matter (I am trying to be very careful with my words here) if the massive amounts of pollution we humans are dumping out into nature are increasing global warming or the massive amounts of pollution we humans are dumping out into nature aren't a cause of global warming.
I feel both sides are using environmental issues to put forth political agendas when neither of those ought to be important. They are a smokescreen. The real emphasis ought to be keeping better stewardship of the earth.