Perhaps it’s meant to be satirical 23/12/2009
The gods must be out to destroy the Sydney Morning Herald’s opinion editor.
The Herald’s eleventh-hour entry for the 2009 award for media lunacy is an opinion piece on Carbonhokum by that well-known champion of a free press Fidel Castro.
And guess what the tyrant is belly-aching about:
Even though all of the official delegations are to take part, only “invited guests” were allowed to express their views.
But there was scepticism abroad. One commenter to the SMH suggested Castro didn’t write the article because “as a spoken address, it comes in at much less than his standard minimum 6 hours”.
That speech should dispel any illusion that climate change is about climate change. Climate change has always been an issue of the left. When I was hanging around Melbourne Uni in 1975, I remember the Vietnam War was no longer a vehicle for protest and the radicals turned into tree huggers overnight. The warmists are the same people who can no longer believe in the USSR, can’t wave Mao’s Little Red Book, can’t protest the Vietnam War, can’t vote for Gough and can’t occupy the vice-chancellor’s office. They feel guilty because of their largely unearned middle class western lifestyle, they are filled with cultural self-loathing and they have lost the religious faith of previous generations. I don’t know if I should pity or despise them, but I know they are dangerous fools.
ps At one point I forgot it was a third world tyrant speaking and thought it may be the SMH editorial writer’s opinion. I can seldom tell the difference.