I am a little upset with one of my officemates. Today, in class, we were talking about the problem of global warming. My professor showed us a BBC article that stated that global warming saved lives because more people die from cold than from heat. When class got over, my officemate was complaining that some people in class were disrespectful of the professor because they told him that the article’s argument was poor because there are more people living in cold regions than in hot regions, and therefore it makes sense that more people die from being cold. My officemate said that this was disrespectful because the professor has studied this material and it is horrible for someone to tell him that it was stupid. I guess she didn’t realize that this wasn’t necessarily his opinion, but that he was using this article to create an interesting discussion in the classroom.

As we were talking in our office after class, I brought up an article that was published by the World Health Organization that said climate change causes 150,000 deaths per year. Before I could continue talking about the article, my officemate said that she didn’t see how that was possible and she made it very clear that she didn’t want to hear what I had to say. I think that she was doing the same thing to me that she was complaining others did to our professor.