The Green Activist Fantasy of Depopulating the Planet Gets a Boost in Africa via Locusts Environmentalists have been very successful at preventing the kind of development in many African countries that would ensure adequate living standards. This doesn't mean throwing even more guilt money at the problem, which has been shown time and again to make matters worse. It means allowing the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity, and allowing the use of genetically modified organisms to improve crop growth and resilience. Now a domino-roll of African countries are having their food supplies destroyed by plagues of locusts, but the pressure is on to use "organic" pesticides, rather than ones that actually work. The potential for disaster is enormous. Read more .
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The Free Speech Union: An Opportunity to Get Involved and Make a Difference Are you sick of hearing about yet another person being harassed, de-platformed, or driven out of their job by woke social justice warriors? Does it make you feel that the very foundations of modern liberal democracies are being eroded when habeus corpus, the due process of law, and democracy itself are being trampled for some bullshit "higher good". Then listen to Toby Young talking to Peter Whittle on the New Culture Forum about his experiences and what drove him to form the Free Speech Union. And be inspired. Kate Flinders
Yet Another Example of 21st Century McCarthyism Hatred. Black lists. Conspiring to make innocent people lose their jobs and make them unemployable in their chosen field. Putting a target on someone and vowing to bring them down. Is this a description of the campaign against communists in the 1950s? No, it's how honest scientists who question the climate emergency orthodoxy are treated. Read more .
Being Wrong for a Good Cause is OK A fundamental aspect of science is making specific predictions (hypotheses) and then seeing if they turn out. If they don't, this implies there is something wrong with the theory they are based on. Climate alarmist constantly make predictions that turn out to be false, but this doesn't make them question their theory: that we face a climate emergency of "existential" proportions. They simply latch onto some new, even more hysterical, prediction, just as pre-scientific doom-mongers did centuries ago. This article from the Spectator sums up the phenomenon nicely.