If we're going to make fun of people who think the earth is 6000 years old or that cavemen frolicked with dinosaurs we should also make fun of berserk "environmentalists" who say blatantly stupid things. Ted Turner is an idiot. Why anyone can read anything he says and not cringe if he's on their side is beyond me. Yes, I understand he has made money and that is intellectual validation enough for some people but saying global warming is going to make us all cannibals is the kind of nonsensical silliness we need to avoid if we're going to get things done. Pollution is a serious problem no matter what form it takes. 'Climate change' was created as a term because we don't have actual 'global' warming but we do have a serious warming problem and the semantics (and politics) of it were encouraging too many people with political motivations to create confusion. That goes for both sides of the debate, left and right, proponents and skeptics. "We'll be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow," Turner said to Charlie Rose during his PBS show yesterday. Even Al Gore wasn't wrong by that much. Now, the same people who will constantly dredge up George Bush standing on a boat with a "Mission Accomplished" sign in the background will dismiss this kind of irrational, rambling rhetoric as harmless when it's done by a left-wing environmentalist who has lost touch with reality. It's an intellectual mistake we should not allow just because we happen to agree with him that global warming is a problem that needs to be addressed. "It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid," he said. Well, no, not really. Ted Turner seems to care about people - if they're rich white guys in the south. Not everyone inherited a business from their fathers and went on to turn baseball teams into media-empire parts of corporations that forced other teams to follow suit and have basically ruined the game. He's instead going to relegate everyone who does not have all of his stuff (99.9999% of the world) to not having much of a good life at all. They'll even be forced to 'voluntarily' not have children if he has his way, which will offend billions of religious people who might otherwise be on the side of helping the planet. The guy who once called Christianity a religion for losers has figured out that giving $200 million to Lutherans and Methodists directly to fight malaria in Africa was a lot smarter than giving it to the UN so he can learn and grow. Let's just hope he can learn and grow about anthropology and actual climate science before he goes on TV again.