Now for some sensible talk about climate change
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Wed Jul 25 2007 12:00:00 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time)
Now for some sensible talk about climate change
Wednesday, 25 July 2007, 2:40 pm
Press Release: New Zealand Business Roundtable
No. 113 July 2007
Now for some sensible talk about climate change
By Janet Albrechtsen
11 July 2007
PHEW, Live Earth is over. The seven concerts on seven continents featuring a bunch of jet fuel-addicted rock stars summed up the problem with much of the talk about change. Hypocrisy aside, the climate change rockers and other zealots would have us believe there is no problem more uniquely modern than climate change. When it comes to mapping out solutions to this most 21st century of problems, history can teach us nothing. We are on our own. Right? Well, actually, no. Wrong. Dead wrong… Live Earth was promoted as yet another episode in raising awareness on climate change. We needed that like a hole in the head. Instead of repeating dire predictions about the future, a better goal would have been to educate people about the real world. About the social and economic realities confronting the real world. Realities such as poverty… But poverty is old hat these days. Live Aid has been replaced by Live Earth. Cool cats talk about climate change. The reality is that if we are to include the world’s main emitters in long-term climate change initiatives, they need to feed their people first. Just don’t expect to hear about it from Snoop Dogg or Madonna. Click here to read article.
This article was first published in The Australian 11 July 2007
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