Not surprisingly, a torrent of personal abuse has been released on social media against this outstanding contributor to the wealth of this country.
Signatories of an open letter addressed to Fremantle Dockers President Dale Alcock claimed that “climate change is already creating catastrophic and deadly conditions for communities here and overseas” and that the company’s “core activities are so clearly threatening our planet.”
The meddlesome interference of sportspeople in the climate change debate demonstrates that the world of sports, unfortunately, remains enmeshed in the world of politics.
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The ill-conceived attempt at virtue signalling makes little sense given Australia’s economic well-being is entirely dependent on primary resource industries like coal and iron ore mining.
These demands for sporting teams to sever their ties with resource companies is reminiscent of Scottish author Charles Mackay’s 1841 book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.”
The book lucidly describes the ease at which governments and policymakers create mass hysteria through peddling popular, but odious ideas.
And we are seeing the very same mass hysteria play out today.
Carbon Emissions Really That Dangerous?
We know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about the interior of our planet Earth, or even about the hundreds of thousands of sub-sea fissures and volcanic vents constantly discharging heat and often toxic matter into the oceans and atmosphere.Human recycling of a harmless trace gas that is not even listed as an atmospheric pollutant in any government document is a tiny fraction of the natural releases of this gas.
Oceans, the largest lungs of the Earth, inhale and exhale carbon dioxide and other trace gases daily in response to temperature changes, according to Henry’s Law.
Doomsday Prophets Working Overtime
Doomsday predictions, including those that predict the demise of the world because of climate change, are continually made based on incorrect knowledge.From the Chicken Little fable (also known as Henny Penny) to the discredited report “Limits to Growth” published in 1972, people in general have easily been driven to despair that the world will end.
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It has constantly been proven that the Earth is able to support life for eons into the future, but only if our talents are mobilised to access its resources—this requires cheap and reliable power.
But enthusiasts attending the climate-controlled incubators of international talkfests held in Paris, Glasgow, and in November of this year in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, will undoubtedly continue to hatch and peddle their doomsday predictions.
It would, however, be better if the proponents of climate change were to reflect on the current innate inability of humankind to unravel the mysteries of changes in temperature on Earth.
If so, the wisdom of banning resources companies from sponsoring a sporting team might be reconsidered and sanity restored to this debate.