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Who Will Been Right in the End?
According to Fatima Ibrahim, co-founder of Green New Deal Rising, Only noisy protest makes politicians take action to avoid climate catastrophe. What action are these noisy protests demanding? Before attempting to force politicians to take action (i.e. spend our money), … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy
Tagged apartheid, climate activists, climate change, coal-fired power, fossil fuel, fracking, fundamental rights, green new deal, heathrow, socialism, wind power
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Saving the World by Making Us All Poor
Guardian writer George Monbiot claims that ‘Green growth’ doesn’t exist – less of everything is the only way to avert catastrophe. How does he propose bringing this change about? It is simply not possible to carry on at the current … Continue reading
Climate Fearing Useful Idiots Welcome Authoritarianism
George Monbiot writes in the Guardian that Earth’s tipping points could be closer than we think. Our current plans won’t work. His qualifications as a Bachelor of Science in Zoology and a political activist seem to give his opinion on … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy
Tagged carbon tax, climate change, gillette jaunes, IPCC, nuclear power
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Poor Countries Complain that They Were Only Given Eighty Billion Dollars
Now that the mainstream media is finally acknowledging that adapting to climate change is a necessity, Navin Khadka, writing for the BBC, laments that Low-income countries ‘can’t keep up’ with impacts. Organisations representing 90 countries say that their plans to … Continue reading
Individualism is not Extremist, Nationalism is not Racist
Writing in the Guardian, Aditya Chakrabortty claims that After Covid, the climate crisis will be the next thing the right says we ‘just have to live with’. He then goes on to attack individualism, something valued by leftist anarchists and … Continue reading
Climate Activists Turn Their Sites on the Suburbs
Don Pittis, writing for the CBC, has an interesting article that posits Climate change focus moves to the suburbs as cities continue to sprawl. He makes some good points. You might think that cramped and crowded cities, dense with roads … Continue reading
Communism Won’t Solve the Problems of Global Warming
Aaron Wherry of CBC’s Ottawa parliamentary bureau states that Like the pandemic, climate change causes the poor and the frail to suffer most. We need to prepare. What does he proscribe. “Climate change,” Ian Culbert, executive director of the Canadian … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, equity agenda, green roofs, mass transit, nuclear power
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There’s No Pleasing Climate Activists
We are told with solemn certainty that the world will be destroyed in the next decade if we don’t mend our fossil fuel consuming ways. We are told we need a “green new deal” to promote reusable energy. And then … Continue reading
Covid-19 and Climate Change Are Not Comparable
Aaron Wherry writes for CBC news that the climate crisis is still a massive threat — even in the middle of a pandemic. The profound and urgent threat of climate change still hangs over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government — quite … Continue reading
“Free Will Debunked” Debunked
Steven Woodford believes that science has “debunked” the fact that humans have free will. I’m going to examine his argument. We all experience what is known in philosophy as ‘libertarian free will’. That is, we feel like we are in … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, determinism, free will, quantum mechanics, sam harris, steven woodford
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