Judging from an email, Ian Wishart's new book is days away from shipping. Couldn't see an advert on his Investigate Magazine home page though. Soon, perhaps?I must admit, I'm curious about the contents. I'll be ordering a copy and having a read.
The conclusion seems to be on the cover page, and that alone will infuriate the AGW Gore-ites. No doubt, it will excuse them from having to even read the book.
I'm skeptical about AGW (especially the A part of that) but I'm of the opinion that mankind's score card on pollution control is pretty shoddy, and respecting the environment is simply sensible. And responsible.
I don't usually like to mention my opinion on environmental responsibility and AGW together though.
When talking to an AGW zealot, they might think I'm likely to automatically agree with any or all of their prescriptions to "save the planet". Forget Kyoto, for starters.
Saving the planet is all well and good. I'm interested to see Ian's take on the AGW industry. Forty years ago, we were decades away from an ice age. Acid Rain had apparently wiped out the North American and European forests. We were 5 years away from mass starvation, because (supposedly) the world couldn't handle three billion people.
Now the planet is warming, polar bears are drowning, snows are melting and the population is back to "exploding".
Your Global Footprint score is the modern sin-o-meter and End of Times Disaster Scenarios are marketed with compelling sophistication. They've learned from their past mistakes on how consumers react to over-hyping, and have refined their approach.
It's a bit like watching the evolution of TV programs. In the 60's, it was "Ironsides", then we progressed to the steely realism of "Hill Street Blues" and now shows like CSI seem more real than reality. At least to some people.
Is Ian's book going to be like a peek behind the scenes?
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I like Ian Wishart, sadly he's just about the only journalist in this country who does his job. Investigate is a great read, with the likes of Steyn, Prosser, Devine, Brooke and the new contributor Hal Colebatch. I was a little disappointed by Absolute Power, not his best work IMHO... as an Investigate subscriber I was already familiar with most of the material.
ReplyDeleteThe left and the Cresswellian libertines sneer at Wishart primarily because he's a Christian and secondly that he doesn't prostrate himself to the politically correct Kirk & Masden homosexual propaganda offensive.
I remember reading an article in the Sunday Times in the 70s, where they reckoned the global population explosion/pollution meant we were going to run out of breathable air, (ie oxygen masks on every street corner) and Palmerston North was going to grow so much, it would join Wellington in a supercity. But with all that, there was a 'looking after the planet' positivity - the anti litter ads and the "I Care" campaign and so on.
ReplyDeleteI was talking to him the other day about the possibility of him speaking at our Thinking Matters Apologetics events and he said it was being released very soon.
ReplyDeleteFrom what he told me about it I too most definately intend to read it - we have most of his books and they were not money wasted.