Bucking the trend
Re: "Transition-finance for a green economy", (Opinion, March 10).
It always astounds me to see obviously intelligent and accomplished people such as Khun Sarinee Achavanuntakul who are active in business directly related to "climate change" yet know nothing about it.
Green finance is big business only because the UN and its believers have converted so many people into climate change fanatics.
To date, 1,977 accredited scientists, among them two Nobel Laureates, have signed the world climate declaration, "There Is No Climate Emergency".
Among these scientists is Dr Willie Soon -- astrophysicist and aerospace engineer at The Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, who stars in a hilariously entertaining, yet educational YouTube video, "Atlantis, Sea Levels, and Climate Doom," where he points out that current sea levels are now at their lowest levels in 500 years.
Richard Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT commented: "CO2… it's not a pollutant… it's the product of all plant respiration; it is essential for plant life and photosynthesis."
Another signatory, former president of Greenpeace (Canada), Patrick Moore, said: "The whole climate crisis is not only fake news, it's fake science."
It seems highly doubtful that Khun Sarinee is aware of this fact.
Re: "Aid cuts necessary", (PostBag, March 3).
As Dr Jan insists, the US national debt in excess of $36 trillion is a worry. The good doctor failed, nonetheless, to note how much President Donald Trump's first term contributed to that. When Mr Trump was sworn in as president in 2017, the US national debt stood at $19.95 trillion; when he left office four years later, it had risen to $27.75 trillion or 39% increase in a single four-year term.
In 2017, Mr Trump promised that tax cuts for the rich would so stimulate the economy that the entire national debt could be paid off within eight years. The facts contradict it. Mr Trump and Elon Musk might want to make the US the worst possible Samaritan, putting piddling money bags over human lives, but that rejection of compassion and mercy is merely not a good look. It is cruel and selfish. What the US needs is higher taxation of the wealthy, both to bring down its unsustainable national debt and for the health of its republican form of democracy. The rich in the US should be paying higher taxes, not cheering aid cuts that harm the poorest and the most desperate.
Re: "Farewell Nato", (Opinion, March 6).
Though Gwynne Dyer's prediction of Nato's demise is probably premature, I certainly wouldn't mourn Nato's demise. Nato has always been a tool of the American Empire, which by its very nature antagonised the Russians and infantilised the Europeans. That was perfectly appropriate during the Cold War, of course, but Nato has now outlived its utility. A far better approach to security in Eurasia is through the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which is inclusive of all powers. The unipolar moment is ending, and our emerging multipolar world will be a lot more stable if we organise a Eurasian security framework through OSCE instead of allowing Nato to be used as cover for America's destructive quest to maintain global dominance.
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