tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post7810167204438186761..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: Taking Charlotte Church's comments on Syria seriously (for a minute or two)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-73413164400846394982015-10-05T18:52:54.184+01:002015-10-05T18:52:54.184+01:00This girl is an utter fuckwit. What is shameful is...This girl is an utter fuckwit. What is shameful is that the BBC saw fit to parade this moron on what it promotes as a serious political debate programme.<br /><br />By having Church on QT, the BBC denied it's audience the benefit of someone with a serious opinion worth hearing. Instead we got the banal ramblings of a stupid little welsh girl who no longer sells any records.John Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07437765041360086205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-56014318208914489622015-10-03T06:51:12.941+01:002015-10-03T06:51:12.941+01:00I think this nails her claims...
http://www.bisho...I think this nails her claims...<br /><br />http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/9/8/minor-drying-in-iran-causes-farmers-to-flee-syria.htmlBarmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05447854731015370342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-361807287339557322015-10-03T04:53:22.149+01:002015-10-03T04:53:22.149+01:00The West Coast of the USA is in drought. It is unl...The West Coast of the USA is in drought. It is unlikely to lead to any sort of mass migration.<br /><br />Even if we accept that drought played a part in Syria's descent into anarchy, as I do not, then it is only because Syria was already a disaster of a country that it came into play. Well run countries - where the people who run them do so mostly for the people's benefit rather than their own - don't have this sort of issue. The other countries around Syria didn't have the same reaction. It would be amazing if Israel went into civil war because of a few years of low rainfall. <br /><br />The cause was the unpopularity of Assad's dirty regime. Anything else was at best a trigger. Chester Drawsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-13442984611945570062015-10-03T00:20:05.480+01:002015-10-03T00:20:05.480+01:00Asquith: I shall give you your due in that you are...Asquith: I shall give you your due in that you are a lot smarter than the likes of Ehrlich, <i>et al</i>, as they set their projected doom within a foreseeable future – you have at least said “a few decades”, by which time, you will either be dead or people will have forgotten your forecast (or both).<br /><br />You applaud the Holy Father’s statements on the matter, which indicates that you put some credence in his word, yet you then say that this planet is for everyone, even if they are not Christian. As every Christian knows (or should know), the only way to heaven is through Christ, the principle message of the Holy Father, I would have thought; indeed, the principle message of every Christian. Perhaps you do not take everything the Holy Father says seriously, if you happen not to agree with it?<br /><br />Finally: while there certainly is a lot to be concerned about with the politics of the world, is there really an environmental problem?<br />Radical Rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09098158811572687268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-87791734509840565902015-10-02T20:33:56.979+01:002015-10-02T20:33:56.979+01:00As a sworn foe of Charlotte Church, I do think the...As a sworn foe of Charlotte Church, I do think there's something in what she said then if nothing else. Unlike you I applauded the Holy Father's statements on the matter, as I think in a few decades' time environmental crises will be as big a generator of refugees as the illegal war in Iraq and Russian aggresion.<br /><br />Of course urbanisation is a phenomenon and there is natural climate change. That doesn't mean urbanisation isn't spurred by environmental woes or that manmade climate change doesn't exist, I'm certain it does.<br /><br />I appreciate the Green Party is more a socialist ragbag than an environmental party and that urban greens re wedded to things like anti-nuclear (except Monbiot, he's spoken out against the consensus and I do like his rewilding, though my exact stance on that would take too long to describe for this comment's purposes).<br /><br />But none of this is to refute the environmental effort. Some do it badly and in ways you're against, then get involved your own way. It's a planet for socialist, liberal, conservative, Christian, Muslim, atheist and everyone.<br /><br />I'd imagine most readers here are conservatives or libertarians. I commend to you, and anyone really, this:<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9014330/Green-Philosophy-by-Roger-Scruton-review.html<br /><br />A a liberal, I disagreed with many of his solutions, but welcome the fact that he acknowledges there's a problem and proposes solutions, which is further than many have got. I appreciate some greens are objectionable and wrong, but that's a reason to be a better conservationist than them, not to jump into the arms of anti-environmentalists.<br /><br />PS-<br />I know I've said all this before but I'm hoping someone will see it and be launched on a journey :)asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.com