Bjørn Lomborg is one of the world’s foremost contributors to policy debates on climate change. A Danish political scientist, author and the President of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Centre, he became internationally known for his best-selling book The Sceptical Environmentalist (2001). In 2004, he was listed as one of Time‘s 100 most influential people.
A prolific author, Dr Lomborg has published several well-received books. These include best-sellers False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet (2020) and Cool It (2010). With these and other books, together with countless articles and op-eds translated into many languages, Lomborg’s central theses regarding the economic aspects of climate change and key policy recommendations are well formulated and easily understood.
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Back when petitions against covid folly and evil were more of a thing, and I signed a few, I always found it extremely depressing to see how few other people had signed most of them and often saw other petitions that called for the government to sort people lives out or prohibit X or Y that seemed like trivial rubbish in comparison – those had 10 or 100 times as many signatures. “Our” petitions were mainly about the government doing much less. Nothing I’ve seen since has given me much cause for optimism.
‘Startrek’ the originator of tv’s most famous split infinitive. To boldly go.
Just absolutely insane what is happening in Ottawa. A school has been given a directive to instruct staff to treat all pupils as nonbinary and use ridiculous pronouns when referring to them, so the sensible and concerned parents, regardless of faith, are rightly uniting to fight this lunacy. There’s an 8min video which shows what’s happening. And why is it always the trans radical nutters that wear face nappies? Speaks volumes I think.
”In an unprecedented display of unity, Christian and Muslim communities joined hands with concerned parents in Ottawa in opposition to the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board’s (OCDSB) plan to force non-binary pronouns on all students.
The directive, issued to all staff, advised the use of ‘they/them’ pronouns for all students until their preferred pronouns were expressed. The move, viewed as an overreach by many parents, triggered a protest attended by more than 250 individuals.
The email directive sent out by the OCDSB, aimed at fostering “inclusivity and belonging” according to spokesperson Darcy Knoll, met with considerable backlash. Anonymously speaking, one Ottawa mother, formerly associated with the OCDSB, expressed her shock, remarking that the emails from the board sounded more like “LGBTQ propaganda.” It was not a stand against inclusivity, she clarified, but against the erosion of open discussion and the propagation of a radical stance that silences any expression of doubt or differing opinion.”
https://thecountersignal.com/muslims-and-christians-unite-against-school-board/
I don’t know where you found this Mogs but it is excellent.
The assault on humanity cares nothing for our religions except in so much as they can be used to foster divisions so this coming together, particularly Christians and Muslims in Ottawa will definitely not be to the Davos Deviants liking. Let us hope this is a sign of a slowly forming united opposition.
Speaking of religions, hux, I think you’ll like this as it is excellent news. It also reminds me of the Christian teacher recently featured on here, who was sacked because he refused to buy into the Woke bollocks and use a kid’s preferred gender pronouns as opposed to the sex they actually were. I hope that guy now has a solid case off the back of this doctor’s success.
”A Christian doctor sacked by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for refusing to use hypothetical transgender pronouns has been vindicated by the General Medical Council (GMC) following a fitness to practise self-referral.
Dr David Mackereth, 60, had been an practising doctor for 26 years when he lost his job with the DWP. He told the DWP in a training session that in good conscience as a Bible-believing Christian he could not identify clients by their chosen ‘gender identity’ instead of their biological sex.
Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said: “David Mackereth’s case challenged the sanity of our society, and our society was found wanting.
“We welcome the official conclusion by the GMC, but the freedom to hold a belief but not express it is no freedom at all. More must be done to recognise and protect the freedom of professionals with Christian and gender critical beliefs on these issues to use their professional judgment without fear of severe and unjust ramifications.
“Dr Mackereth chose to sacrifice his distinguished professional career rather than compromise on the Bible and his conscience. The requirement to use transgender pronouns defies common sense and Christian faith. It serves no useful purpose except filtering out firm Christians and men of principle such as Dr Mackereth.
“If we tolerate this as a society, if we give in on the essential freedom of thought, conscience and religion, no other freedom is safe. We are determined to fight all the way to secure justice in this case.”
https://christianconcern.com/news/christian-doctor-fit-to-practise-after-trans-pronoun-self-referral/
Thanks Mogs. Well done to all concerned.
Is anybody here seeing a duplicate of this article on the home page? DS dropped a newer article about heart failure deaths at lunch time but it isn’t visible, I only happened to see a link to it on Twitter. Wondering if the problem is at my end or are others not seeing the newest article either?
Two links to this article on the homepage for me.
And yet I saw this via a Twitter page;
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/06/10/heart-failure-deaths-in-may-hit-44-higher-than-pre-pandemic-why-is-government-refusing-to-investigate/
How strange….
If we sell the Crown Jewels the family that currently has call on them gets thrown in for free.
It would be good to see a list of petitions that are approved, but get a very small number of signatures showing how wacky everyone else thinks the idea is. I remember seeing one a few years ago calling on the government to give ancient trees rights, but can’t remember what rights the petitioner was calling for. Maybe the right to vote or self declare their gender identity.
“Split infinitive apart” indeed!
Nothing wrong with split infinitives in most cases. The obsession with them comes from times when Latin (whose infinitives cannot be split, consisting as they do of a single word) was the sine qua non of scholarly language – it being considered uncouth, consequently, to split the English versions, which of course consist of two eminently splittable words. Split away! No harm done!