It doesn’t matter where they come from or where you read them, online comments seem to have one overriding common characteristic: obnoxiousness. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Facebook, You Tube, or newspaper websites, online comments coming from people I’ve never met, and thankfully never will, excel by their virtuosity in handling the written word. What […]
Climate Change
Greta Thunberg And The Climate Change Debate
On October 10 an interesting podcast was published on UncommonGroundMedia, analysing, “the validity of the criticisms by people who acknowledge climate change as a problem, and environmental activism as desirable, but are nevertheless vehemently critical of Greta on various grounds, including her youth, her white identity, and the perception of her as a puppet.” On […]
O What A Lovely World – Greta Bashing And Greenwashing
Maybe it’s the way she said it, the fact that she is a young girl on the verge of becoming a young woman, but climate change activist Greta Thunberg said a few things that we, as adults, found distressing. Watching her speech in front of the United Nations filled me with a sense of uneasiness. […]
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“I Accuse…” – Questioning Our Parliaments On Climate Change
In September 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produced a concise document explaining to all governments the necessary measures to combat climate change – assuming, of course, that the governments do believe in climate change. I don’t know whether I was more impressed by the sheer brilliance of Montagne’s rant than […]
Climate Change: Run Rabbit, Run – Run From The Sun
Yes, I know. Before you start accusing me of going all “ecological”, I am aware that the last “dreadful” summer we had, was back in 1976. Since those golden days, we have had widespread floods in Europe, a tornado in London’s Kensal Green, an erupting volcano in Iceland, earthquakes in Italy, no white Christmas for […]