Tag Archives: climate change

Who Will Been Right in the End?

Posted on 2021-10-10 by jimbelton

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 →

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Saving the World by Making Us All Poor

Posted on 2021-09-30 by jimbelton

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 →

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Climate Fearing Useful Idiots Welcome Authoritarianism

Posted on 2021-09-11 by jimbelton

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 →

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Poor Countries Complain that They Were Only Given Eighty Billion Dollars

Posted on 2021-08-08 by jimbelton

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 →

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Individualism is not Extremist, Nationalism is not Racist

Posted on 2021-07-24 by jimbelton

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 →

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Climate Activists Turn Their Sites on the Suburbs

Posted on 2021-07-21 by jimbelton

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 →

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Communism Won’t Solve the Problems of Global Warming

Posted on 2021-07-04 by jimbelton

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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There’s No Pleasing Climate Activists

Posted on 2021-06-15 by jimbelton

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 →

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Covid-19 and Climate Change Are Not Comparable

Posted on 2020-09-18 by jimbelton

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 →

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“Free Will Debunked” Debunked

Posted on 2020-08-30 by jimbelton

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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