If you're gonna hit me with logic, I don't wanna chit-chat.

The World Wildlife Fund denigrates 9/11 in a most disgusting way, denies it, walks back the denial, and tries to airbrush it away.

There is simply no comparison between terrorists hijacking airliners and committing mass murder in the City of New York (and at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, PA) and a random (if massive) earthquake followed by a random (if massive) tsunami that kills hundreds of thousands of people who happen to live by the sea in a "hot" tectonic boundary zone.

Terrorist act == committed by humans against other humans, might have been preventable, horribly evil.

Tsunami == completely random and unpreventable, horrific but not evil -- because "evil" presupposes an intelligent actor.

If you are going to equate 9/11 and the Boxing Day Tsunami in any way, then you must acknowledge Earth Mother Gaia as an intelligent, malignant, EVIL actor -- moreso than the 9/11 terrorists by a few orders of magnitude. And indeed, the ad ends by implying that the planet is a living being, it's pissed off, and we'd better watch our ass. Get a clue, morons...the planet is rock and water and earth and even if it were alive, it doesn't even notice that we're here. Volcanos belch out more (and nastier) pollutants in five minutes than the human race does in generations.* Explain to me, then, why we aren't more worried about volcanos than about CO₂.

Organizations like the WWF may have had a purpose when they were founded. They are not worth the powder to blow them up today. They should be ashamed of what they have become.

Except that shame doesn't seem to be in anybody's lexicon these days.

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* I still remember walking around the library courtyard at IUPUI several weeks after Mount Pinatubo exploded in 1991, and wondering where all the black shit on my shoes came from. I found out later that it was ash that had gone all the way around the world before precipitating out thousands of miles from its origin point. Last time I looked, the IPL plant downtown (f'r'instance) didn't do that.