Who said this at the 2nd World Climate Conference?
In recent years, we have been playing with the conditions of the life we know on the surface of our planet. We have cared too little for our seas, our forests and our land. We have treated the air and the oceans like a dustbin. We have come to realise that man’s activities and numbers threaten to upset the biological balance which we have taken for granted and on which human life depends.
- James Hansen
- Margaret Thatcher
- Homer Simpson
- Bette Midler
- Alfred E Neumann
Straight out of Ehrlich’s playbook. At least she had the sense to recant. Read Statecraft.
Dern, I guess our idols have feet of sand. Proves, nobody is perfect.
6. Satan
It sounds an awful lot like a religious sermon. I’d pick the sage/bishop/minister/prophet if he’d been on the list.
Sad to say that, based on use of the term “dustbin” and the spelling of “realise”, it most likely was Lady Thatcher.
Despite all her truly heroic efforts to help crumble the USSR, fight for sovereign rights in the Falklands War, and push back doggedly against the Socialist nit-wits in Parliament, Maggie will have to bear the cross of having endorsed the “greenhouse gas crisis” stagecrafted by Hansen and Wirth (among others).
She saw an opportunity to bust the coal-miners unions in the U.K. by demonizing their product. But the terrible unintended (I hope) consequence of her stance, given credibility by her education in chemistry, was to hugely empower the enviro-mental activists who have always been dead-set against any human development of any resource.
I’d love to ask Hansen, in a most public forum, his thoughts on the passing of the “Iron Lady”, given the rich irony that she (an otherwise staunch Conservative) lent gravitas to his otherwise pathetic life-long crusade against abundant, reliable, affordable energy.
Thatch was a hugely decisive politician because she held strong views and was able to force through her ideals. She later found that she was wrong on this subject and, to her credit, realized it and said so.
Unfortunately she was too late the AGW circus had already gathered and she was out of power.
Oops that should be Thatcher not Thatch.
It’s amazing what stupid things politicians will say and do when they think they’re creating a legacy.