From today's Guardian article by Guy Edwards.
Sometimes you just happen across something where the question that you knew you always wanted to ask, but couldn't quite phrase it just in the terms you wanted to, is asked for you! So here it is ........
"How can it be that one man is able to persuade the UK parliament to go to war in Iraq based on weak intelligence, causing thousands of people to protest on the streets, and at the same time millions of people cannot convince their own leaders to take the threat of climate change seriously when even the chief scientific adviser to the government says it is a far greater threat than international terrorism."
Quite! And deserving of some valid answers!
"Brown's recent decision to downgrade the ministerial committee on energy and the environment has demonstrated an uneasy truth, that there is little substance behind 'Brown's green facade'."
You heard it here first! See last paragraph of Met Office Prediction.
"We are running out of time. Brown must take it upon himself to act - putting a stop to climate change requires the power of strong leadership."
Well, let's see if Ol' Golden is up to the task. I have my doubts.
Junkk.com promotes fun, reward-based e-practices, sharing oodles of info in objective, balanced ways. But we do have personal opinions, too! Hence this slightly ‘off of site, top of mind' blog by Junkk Male Peter. Hopefully still more ‘concerned mates’ than 'do this... or else' nannies, with critiques seen as constructive or of a more eyebrow-twitching ‘Oh, really?!' variety. Little that’s green can be viewed only in black and white.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
1 comment:
I believe in freedom of speech. But I also don't like bullies on blogs, even verbal ones, as they can drive away those with something valid to say... or offer.
Subjective is fine, but well argued and substantiated is even better. Calm and polite tops. Anything that crosses my personal line will not go up. There may be reasons given, but not guaranteed.
I'm not too keen on 'Anon' as a handle (and the content usually explains why), so if that's what you opt for it may not make it. Sorry.
I agree. Totally.
ReplyDeleteAnd I am kicking myself for focussing so much on the fall-out from the Planet Relief story.
But seeing folk like me getting lumped in with BOFDIs simply because I didn't rate this effort really got to me, more because it really hands a massive dollop of 'eco-facist' counter-propaganda to those who would tar anything advocating even moderate green issues with.
As I mentioned in my post (around here somewhere), the lack of political leadership in this is appalling.