Cassandra Effect
By Ed. Filed in Computers & Internet, Education, Environment, Health, Life |
There have only been a few girls that I can think of that I’ve known in any fashion who were named Cassandra. I don’t think it was popular with the mother’s of my generation, and the next generation of children didn’t have much impact on my life.
The two Cassandras that come to mind now are both in their late 20′s and they both use the nickname, Cassie. I wonder if their parents had the use of the nickname in mind when they gave their babies the name Cassandra?
Reading a New York Times article I came across an unfamiliar term. The writer called the worsening climate and the propensity to ignore the dire warnings of Al Gore and the world’s scientists, “The Cassandra Effect.”
The result of all this is that climate scientists have, en masse, become Cassandras — gifted with the ability to prophesy future disasters, but cursed with the inability to get anyone to believe them.
None of us can argue that the weather has been getting more severe and more weird over the past several years. At first the climate experts were blaming “El Nino” but I think it has become apparent that it is much more than that.