Mike Hulme's parting words to me (after a talk in which he failed to acknowledge climate risk and I asked why): "the reason you and I disagree about climate change is that you care about future generations and I don't."
Time wasters don't like the deadlines we need to care about. — Paul Price (@swimsure)Counterpoint
I suspect he "cares" about current generations only because they have the option to form a lynch mob.
ReplyDelete"...and I don't."
ReplyDeleteThat about says it all, doesn't it?
Greta Thunberg is the environmental equivalent of a child evangelist -- same mentality all around:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kttVCbTrDLw
BOSWELL:
ReplyDeleteWhat I want to know is, what sermons afford the best specimen of English
pulpit eloquence.
JOHNSON:
We have no sermons addressed to the passions, that are good for anything;
if you mean that kind of eloquence.
A CLERGYMAN OVERHEARING THEM:
Were not Dodd’s sermons addressed to the passions?
JOHNSON TURNING TO CLERGYMAN:
They were nothing, Sir, be they addressed to what they may.