Sometimes you look at the news and wonder what planet you have been transported to.
Our climate change protests are being led by Greta Thunberg, a sweet child but scarcely a professor of meteorology or even a well read science graduate. Why? It is not because she is brilliant or clever, it is because she sells media clicks, views and papers. It is also because she doesn't know what she is talking about. This ignorance allows "Climate Change" to be hermeticised, sealed off into commercially attractive campaigns for electric cars, new building design and waste management. If we do dodge global warming we will eventually get an ice age, what then? Ice sheets over half of Europe will not be popular. (Don't say that you didn't know ice ages happen every 50-100,000 years and one is due about now). Climate Change is not the problem, there is an ecological catastrophe in progress, just look out of an aircraft window, see the land covered in fields and cities, and realise that below you was once forest and the wild. What has caused this catastrophe?
The problem is too many people. You know that, I know that but our vicious media is not paid by bosses who want interference with growth. There are now so many of us that if the world gets a bit hotter or a bit colder many of us will run out of food and places to live. See Is Global Warming a Problem Because of Overpopulation?.
And then there is the idiotic story of Trudeau in Canada. I recently went to Simla and saw several groups of Indians dressed in plus-fours and speaking with posh English accents. I thought it was hilarious, as did they. Dressing up in funny clothes and even poking fun at a race - is it always racist?
Our mass media are largely malevolent. Moral outrage over synthetic "causes" is now their bread and butter. It not only sells copy but lets those who are really responsible for what is happening in the world off the hook.
20/09/2019
Our climate change protests are being led by Greta Thunberg, a sweet child but scarcely a professor of meteorology or even a well read science graduate. Why? It is not because she is brilliant or clever, it is because she sells media clicks, views and papers. It is also because she doesn't know what she is talking about. This ignorance allows "Climate Change" to be hermeticised, sealed off into commercially attractive campaigns for electric cars, new building design and waste management. If we do dodge global warming we will eventually get an ice age, what then? Ice sheets over half of Europe will not be popular. (Don't say that you didn't know ice ages happen every 50-100,000 years and one is due about now). Climate Change is not the problem, there is an ecological catastrophe in progress, just look out of an aircraft window, see the land covered in fields and cities, and realise that below you was once forest and the wild. What has caused this catastrophe?
The problem is too many people. You know that, I know that but our vicious media is not paid by bosses who want interference with growth. There are now so many of us that if the world gets a bit hotter or a bit colder many of us will run out of food and places to live. See Is Global Warming a Problem Because of Overpopulation?.
And then there is the idiotic story of Trudeau in Canada. I recently went to Simla and saw several groups of Indians dressed in plus-fours and speaking with posh English accents. I thought it was hilarious, as did they. Dressing up in funny clothes and even poking fun at a race - is it always racist?
Our mass media are largely malevolent. Moral outrage over synthetic "causes" is now their bread and butter. It not only sells copy but lets those who are really responsible for what is happening in the world off the hook.
20/09/2019
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