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What’s on today: As an anti-global warming lobby grows, let’s not let them use incorrect doom and gloom from the past … PLUS … Are we really advancing technologically? What is bio-diversity?
SAVE THE PLANET - or you’ll be sorry!
FORGET THE DOOMSTERS
I’ve recently had cause to be reminded of all the doom and gloom predictions concerning the environment and global warming from the 1970s. The reason I’m reminded is that an anti-global warming lobby is gaining ground.
Predictably, they are looking back to those predictions too, and rubbishing the entire subject because of them. And the simple fact is, those predictions of catastrophe haven’t happened, and arguably it would not be that bad anyway.
We need to rationalize just why those predictions were made.
And the first obvious point is that, whatever the subject, the fanatics and nutcases will thrive. This has been the case throughout history.
But these are the exceptions. Most people involved in any one subject are moderate, their ideas sensible, their arguments rounded and compelling. But there is one major problem regarding their message.
The media is not interested in them.
When a new idea is born – when new evidence presents itself of a major change in knowledge – the media is only interested in the sensational. This is the way they sell their product, which is their main concern.
And because of this, the fanatics always seem to rule, and the message is taken totally out of proportion. As the anti-global warming lobby grows, we should remember this as they laugh at those ridiculous doomsters.
But also remember this. The media likes the sensational. So maybe the extreme global warming sceptic is simply repeating the process, giving us only the extreme view, while the majority remain moderate, and sensible.
© Anthony North, January 2008
FROM THE ARCHIVES
STAGNANT TECH
We are told we live in the technological age. Throughout the modern world, technology seems to make life more comfortable, and inventions appear almost daily to increase our survivability and quality of life. But just how advanced IS this technological world? Further, could the entire idea behind this tech be purposely held back, and in being so, affecting our chances of survival on an environmentally ravaged planet …
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BIO-DIVERSITY
Bio-diversity is a term to explain the huge variations in nature. It is a simple fact that neither evolution nor nature could thrive if all options were not explored. Life on Earth is the result of a mixture of all possibilities …
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