Comments on: Not a climate change denier, just a rat squatting in my cage

By: solidgoldcreativity

solidgoldcreativity — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:41:35 +0000

Hello Mr Pip. Yes, I guess the chocolate thing is similar to the Nike sweatshop issue. I hadn’t come across it before. Thanks for the link. Great article. Very much concur with Crichton’s points about fear-mongering, and the paralysing, debilitating effects of speaking in apocalyptic tones. I feel just this way about climate change: paralysed. Also had a laugh at his discussion of Y2K. Geez, remember all that hoo-haa?

By: solidgoldcreativity

solidgoldcreativity — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:29:40 +0000

Thanks :)

By: Mulberry

Mulberry — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:48:45 +0000

interesting post and loved the pic.

By: Phillip S Phogg

Phillip S Phogg — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:58:11 +0000

What you say about the exploitative conditions behind the chocolate we imbibe could be said about many other things we enjoy, like clothing, computers, running shoes, etc.

Not to buy the goods and services produced under these conditions is something we all can do if we feel otherwise unempowered.

Regarding climate change, below is a link to a speech by the late Michael Crichton about complexity, in particular the complexity underlying climatic conditions.

It makes one realise why we get almost everything wrong when predicting the future, including climate change.

http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speech-complexity.html

What Crichton said reminds me of what Bertrand Russell once said about experts: that when they are agreed on anything, the opposite of what they say cannot be held to be certain.