A short break from the PIA series to explore the climate of change espoused by Mr Eddie “can we fix it” McGuire1. Eddie must have some smarts to get where he is but his article (below) has the sharp critical thinking of a football. Eddie makes a good symbol for the anti intellectual “nice guy” reactionary of the Nike “just do it” consumer age.
Forget the climate-change theory, let's get on with the job
Eddie McGuire, Sunday Herald Sun, January 23, 2011
VICTORIA'S highest- ranking public official, Governor David de Kretser, believes in the effects of climate change.
Victoria's highest elected official, Premier Ted Baillieu, doesn't.
Opinion writer Andrew Bolt flat-out says that climate change is nonsense.
Greens leader Senator Bob Brown believes the coal industry should pay for the damage caused by the floods, so obvious is its impact on our weather.
What they all have in common is that they are intelligent, community-minded people.
Unfortunately, climate change is heading the way of religion and football barracking.
It doesn't matter what the evidence or how persuasive you might be, if I believe in my God and that Collingwood is the one true footballing faith, then that's it.
Climate change is either blatantly obvious or a load of rubbish.
So there. Lets just forget ever attempting reasonable or rational approaches. Everything is just un-provable opinion of equal validity.
Now given this unquestionably solid foundation to the start of an argument, its hard to see how sage Eddie can have any idea what, exactly, is “the job” that we should all be getting on with?