From: clyder@gn.apc.org
Date: Sun Feb 10 2008 - 18:37:44 EST
The case for anthropogenic climate change has overwhelming scientific support. It can not just be written of by vague hypothesis about alleged social motivations for the theory. > For reasons I find very hard to fathom, the environmental left movement > has bought very heavily into the fantasy about anthropogenic global > warming and the fantasy that humans can prevent or turn back the warming > cycle. This turn to climate catastrophism is tied into the decline of the > left, and the decline of the left's optimistic vision of altering the > economic nature of things through a political programme. The left has > bought into environmental catastrophism because it thinks that if it can > persuade the world that there is indeed a catastrophe, then somehow the > emergency response will lead to positive developments in terms of social > and environmental justice. This is a fantasy. In truth, environmental > catastrophism will, in fact it already has, play into the hands of > sinister-as-always corporate interests. > > Complete article > http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/reviewofbooks_article/4357/ > > I think that what it is really about is that smoking and farting are not > permitted in polite society, and that if you didn't worry and fret about > something, you would appear not to be seriously engaged with anything > bigger than yourself. Also, it has to do with thrift. If workers are happy > to make do with less to save the planet, employers save money in labour > costs. > > Jurriaan_______________________________________________ > ope mailing list > ope@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope > _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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