Chapter 8 - Village Politics

In this chapter, he mentions a naive freshman that didn't vote in the 2004 presidential election because she didn't think it mattered. Later that year she was informed by a college professor about the concept of global warming and it stunned her. She was utterly surprised that more people weren't already aware of this and that not very many people was doing anything about it. This is ironic to her situation because she was as ignorant about modern politics as everyone else was about global warming. Hopefully after learning this lesson that she will begin to not take things for granted and to focus on more important things than playing beer pong during the election.