Out of the Blue

We had the most shocking experience with Barnes & Noble, where MrsBlue has maintained a loyalty to the bookstore to the extent that she orders books online from them rather than Amazon. The dust jacket on a book she ordered arrived with a large tear, so we went to the bookstore to exchange it. When she found the one copy in the store, the pages were filthy, but the cover was intact, so I suggested we might just be able to exchange just that. That's where the "fun" started. In an effort to maximize bureaucracy and minimize customer service, the process was to actually return the book in the system, rather than just switch the covers. This meant the system wanted another 13-or-so dollars, which was the price difference between the online book and the store-bought book. As crazy as it sounds, they were unable to reconcile this (they didn't seem that concerned with trying), and were only able to accept her return for a refund so she can go buy it online again. Well guess what? Now she's ordering it from Amazon, so whatever spiteful rivalry there is between B&N online and their stores is spiting themselves. The silliest thing is this failure to take the easy path to satisfy a once-loyal customer is how the copy of the book in the store was already damaged, so they needed to return it anyway. Pitiful.

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And when the data they find is not spun to suit an agenda there is overwhelming consensus that much of the global warming occurring now is part of the natural complex and dynamic ecosystem of the earth

I think you gloss over mans contribution to it and how small the margin is between livable and unlivable for our species. People are dramatic about global warming because it's a serious issue, climate models weren't very accurate in the past but are becoming much more now, in fact several have actually undershot the rise in water temperatures worldwide for example. We are seeing more and more extreme weather and CO2 levels the planet hasn't seen in millions of years. Sensible means starting somewhere, the trouble is that no one wants to do anything meaningful because it's not convenient. Oh well the planet will be here no matter what, just a question of whether our species can live in the conditions we're inflicting.

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