“Evil men don’t get up in the morning saying ‘I’m going to do evil.’ They say: ‘I’m going to make the world a better place’.” [Christopher Booker]—loc 2940
In a time of AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) and PNS (post-normal science), I’m still stuck, back there in antiquity, wrestling with the idea of ‘post-nasal drip’. When I’ve resolved that, perhaps I can move on to grappling with ‘Science for a Post Normal Age’. But, then, perhaps I really won’t want to. I kind of liked the ‘Normal Age’ science, myself.
But thank-you, James Delingpole, for the credible and virulent flatulence of your excellent, enlightening, amusing, discursive book: ‘Watermelons: the Green Movement’s True Colors’. I can only hope that many, better, younger, and smarter than me, will also read it—and, better still, that they get it.
Thank-you, big time, for your fortitude and fortissimo in farting into the Green movement’s windstorm. Perhaps you’re only tilting at windfarms, but I could still wish to be counted as, at least, one more, grateful, ‘beneficent presence’. It’s books like ‘Watermelons’ that keep me hoping the ‘Stygian void’ can still be put off a while longer. Maybe.
Recommended to all for whom thinking trumps feelings, and other cockeyed optimists.
“It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience” [C.S. Lewis] loc 2940
Kindle Edition, 6,593 locs. (is there a Kindle reader out there who can tell me what a ‘loc’ is? What is it equal to? It doesn’t seem to be a ‘page’, a ‘paragraph’, or a ‘screen’. I can’t figure out just what it ‘is’.)"
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Dr R W LIDDELL
It was with a sense of relief that I found this book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 21, 2014
A-E Moutet
True, pithy and funny - Delingpole is one of Orwell's children
Reviewed in France on April 18, 2012
