Links for 21-01-2008
The scientific approach to climate change; the most awesomely written financial metaphor you’ll ever read …
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1 – Only science can save us from climate catastrophe
“Despite unstoppable global warming, a humanly liveable world is still worth striving for. But it requires a sustained capacity for realistic thinking, which is not the strong point of the environmental movement.” Bam!
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2 – A straightforward explanation of the present financial crisis (part 1)
“To actually understand all of modern finance, you would need a brain the size of a beachball. This would certainly attract notice, and you might have some trouble getting laid.” This is genius – read immediately.
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January 21st, 2008 at 1:36 pm
“But it requires a sustained capacity for realistic thinking, which is not the strong point of the environmental movement.”
Clearly John Gray has never read anything by George Monbiot, which would be strange as he’s both a champion of the environmentalist movement, and writes for the Observer’s sister paper. On the other hand, smears of grassroots green/leftist movement in the Observer are not very strange at all…
January 21st, 2008 at 1:44 pm
He does tar them all with the same brush somewhat, doesn’t he? But I think it’s the primitivists he’s aiming for, and on that level I think he has a point.