But today's attack piece on environmentalists in the Herald really goes that extra mile.
Moore claims not to be a climate change denier, but then proceeds to blast the Green movement. He accuses the environmental movement of being more like a religion.
It's finally happened. Green politics is officially a religion and deserves the rights of other faiths.And:
The next step will be to put opposition to the green religion on the list of "hate" laws where, in many countries, it is a crime to defame or incite religious or racial hatred.
Ah, no, Mike, that won't be the next step.
He even Godwins himself:
Bossy little people tell you not to eat meat or fly. It's getting a bit like kids having to turn in their parents under fascism. No, it's more like the Inquisition when you had to prove your innocence, and if you were innocent and died under torture that was OK because you were guaranteed a place in heaven.Moore is unable to grasp the essential fallacy of his argument. It is settled science that climate change is occurring and that mankind is contributing to it. It has nothing to do with religion. Indeed the fervour with which climate change sceptics/deniers argue their case - despite the science - suggests they are the group spouting quasi-religious nonsense. They are the ones who cling to a blind belief in something, despite all of the evidence pointing in the other direction.
If you believe the end of the world is nigh, you can rationalise that facts can be embellished and others' rights and opinions can be snuffed out in this crusade.
If you challenge uber-environmentalists, you are a denier. End of story. Even that is a loaded charge, linking scepticism of this righteous belief to Holocaust-denying.
The Herald has been publishing a lot of this nonsense recently. Garth George, Jim Hopkins, John Roughan and now Mike Moore. I don't necessarily detect a conspiracy - just a bunch of foolish old men who think their life experience somehow qualifies them to pronounce on matters of science.
My favourite was this sentence:
I'm not a climate denier.I'm sure he isn't. In fact I don't think anyone is.
But his finale is spectacular in its confused and muddled thinking:
The enemies of reason throughout history, convinced that there is just one way, usually end up burning books, killing sparrows and building furnaces. Even worse, they don't laugh or blush.Enemies of reason? Building furnaces? Killing sparrows? Environmentalists? WTF??
Man is the only species on earth who can laugh or blush or needs to.
What a fool. Mike Moore, you deserve an award.
Leave Mikey alone. All he needs is a job (a simple one) to keep him occupied.
ReplyDeleteTo misquote Robert Muldoon, the average intelligence of New Zealand and the WTO both increased while Mike Mooore was big kahuna there. Our gain was their pain.
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