[Pil-pc-oceania] Durkin's Documentary

[pacific-edge]

As someone pointed out on this list last week, the LaRouch groupies are
campaigning against those campaigning on global warming. Earlier this year
they were distributing their neswspapers outside Sydney Town Hall on  a
Saturday morning.

Last week's correspondent pointed out the extremist right wing alliegance of
this mob of curmudgeons. They are angry and vocal.

...Russ Grayson


On 23/7/07 10:17 AM, "Deb Guildner" <bocor at bigbutton.com.au> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Not sure why I received the email below..
> The 'Global Warring Swindle' message was posted last week...
> Re: Durkin, a piece ending "God Bless Australia, the DVD will be out soon",
> and titled: "up Against the Warming Zealots"
> was published in last weekend (July 21-22) Australian newspaper (Inquirer,
> page 21).
> 
> In the article, Durkin writes (quote):
> "Why are the global warmers so zealous? After a year arguing with people about
> this, I am convinced that it's because global warming is first and foremost a
> political theory. It is an expression of a whole middle-class political world
> view. This view is summed up in the oft-repeated phrase "we consume too much".
> I have also come to the conclusion that this is code for "they consume too
> much", People who believe it tend to think that exotic foreign places are
> being ruined because vulgaroiks can afford to go there in significant numbers,
> they hate plastic toys from factories and prefer wooden ones from craftsmen,
> and so on.
> 
> All this backward looking bigotryhas found perfect expression in the idea of
> man-made climate disaster. It has cohered a bunch of disparate reactionary
> prejudices (anti-car, anti-supermarkets, anti-globalisation)...
> 
> Last week on the ABC they closed ranks. They were not interested ina genuine
> debate. They wanted to shut it down. And thousands of wonderful, sane, bolshie
> Australian viewers saw RIGHT though it. God Bless Australia. The DVD will be
> out soon". (Unquote)
> 
> Unlike Durkin, I have followed this debate for twenty years.  I have not been
> in doubt that there IS a serious problem since at least the mid 1990's.
> It sounds like everything Durkin knows about ecology could fit on a pinhead:
> he writes like one who has just woken up from a 100 years coma and cannot
> comprehend his world.  In reality, here we have as excellent an example of
> retrograde 'thinking' that we are ever likely to see on this subject.
> Let's hope his Visa will be denied, just like the famous holocaust denier,
> (whose name I cannot be bothered remembering).
> 
> I can just imagine what this man would say about permaculture.
> 
> Deb 
> (the pleb).
> 
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