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When not in school the Borlaug children did chores, rising before dawn and working until after sunset. Boys hoed weeds, dug potatoes, milked cows, stacked hay, hauled wood and water, fed chicken, cattle, and horses. Girls tended the vegetable garden, worked the washboard, cleaned house, mended clothing, cooked meals.

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Mann, Charles C.. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet Pan Macmillan. Kindle Edition. Location 1552

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Sometimes an author strikes lucky and invents a character which is utterly compelling and becomes the motif of their entire career. Lee Child’s Reacher, Ian Rankin’s Rebus are excellent examples. The reader looks forward to the next Reacher novel almost as though they have a relationship with him. So it was with Kerr’s Bernie Gunther. We enjoyed his career in Weimar Germany, the compromises with the Nazi’s, his relationship with Heydrich, his post-war career as an SS man on the run. Getting old but still being wily, tough and grotesquely wonderful.

Kerr’ history was empathetic. It used history to support brilliant writing so where does this leave Hitler’s Peace? Kerr uses his historical feel to good effect but unfortunately he’s trying to write counter-factual history: What If history. Sometimes it reads like a clever student who’s studied hard and was ‘jolly well going to use the whole lot’ regardless of whether there was any point or not.

Yes I was disappointed. Hitler’s Peace is a good book but my expectations were sky high.

* There are two dates as this edition has an afterword obituary for Kerr by Howard Jacobson

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The peoples of the land knew, their world
Each plant, the uses they might be put to
The elixir’s and the cautions inherent
In the most benign and kindly plants. 

For longer years than may be remembered
Avoided nightshade’s, or hemlock…
Foxglove concoctions may only be used,
By those with the old knowledge. 

For most every malaise,
A concoction or remedy was available
But, only to those with shaman know-how
That know-how often passed down in generations. 

The roots, stem leaves buds, or flowers
Each may be enlisted, with acquaintance
Binding a poultice, or bruising, while…
Joining with other remedy’s like honey. 

Which, individuals do we owe?
Were they witches, or those following a path
Trodden by ancestors who followed the Seasons
In complete, harmony with nature. 

Remember, March April and May
Each as the Earth turns
Awakens the silent call of Spring
New birth, be it plant or mankind. 

How we squander, such precious gifts
We cull without consideration, of consequence
Cut down, destroy and reek annihilation
Without concern, even for ourselves. 

It’s to late, for the old to lament
They threw away their inheritance
They burned and pillaged what was theirs
Their birth right, discarded. 

Is it too late, to trust the young
Are our mistakes ingrained, intrinsic
perhaps, perhaps not…
Will they ever see, a wild meadow? 

Bursting, almost blushing with insect attractions
Scents, subtle frenetic pheromones
In flower heads of every conceivable colour
How sad, to lose all, to Man’s selfish lust. 

Mike

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“OK,” Miguel said, “I’ll ask them.” He started up the fairway, only to stop halfway and turn back.

“What’s wrong?”

That’s one hell of a coincidence.”

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Introduction

In the 18th century David Hume posited the Is/Ought problem. Hume said there’s no connexion between something being the case and an action. That someone is drowning isn’t a reason in itself for attempting a rescue. If a rescue is attempted then it is for other reasons, which are separate to the fact of drowning. It might be thought that the only right thing to do, for a fellow human being, is to attempt a rescue. There might even be a sense of reciprocity at work: If I were drowning then I’d hope that someone would attempt to rescue me. Therefore:-

(1) Climate change is making the climate worse, and

(2) Something ought to be done to reduce carbon emissions

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Discussion

Climate change activists propose a global response to constantly rising carbon emissions, hoping to avoid a catastrophe. They prophecy climate change is a change for the worse. Whether change will be worse is an untestable value judgement. The counter-proposal that climate change is a change for the better is also untestable. There’s no possible resolution between these incompatible positions as both value judgements are held without evidence. There is overwhelming belief in the theory that climate change is a change for the worse. That a there’s a majority doesn’t add to its validity as an argument.

Climate change activists believe there will be a dystopian future. Activists say, ‘Life will be impossible’ subsequent to climatic change. Taken literally, this means an uninhabitable earth with humanity eliminated in an act of collective suicide. This apocalyptic scenario is implausible because there’s sufficient wealth, ingenuity and desire to avoid the slowly evolving cataclysm.

Suppose there are future unborn generations. Why should I sacrifice anything for unknowable people in the distant future?

Climate activists are demanding global society act altruistically by investing resources for the benefit of future generations. Unborn generations don’t have a right to demand* sacrifices and they haven’t appointed delegates either. Climate change activists can’t know today’s sacrifices aren’t a mistake and unborn generations needed more climate change. Human effects on the world are a fact but we don’t know whether they’re benign or not. We don’t know because the future is unknowable. We can only say that change means things will be different. That a change means things are different is trite but is the limit of the evidence base.

Climate change activists see norms being shattered and say, ‘Life 老王v2.2.8 be impossible’. What they mean is current life models might impossible. This is a conservative viewpoint. To claim, ‘Life will be impossible’ is Liebnizian. He postulated that his world was ‘Devexpress离线安装包下载!_隔壁老王的博客-CSDN博客:2021-3-18 · 这个链接下载的永远都是最新的离线安装包. 展开阅读全文 点赞 3 评论 3 分享 x 海报分享 ... 隔壁老王 的博客 03-21 3091 Devexpress 各版本中文语言包 太老的版本就不放了,人要以发展的眼光看问题,不能总固守已有陈旧的事务。将语言包解压,放到 ... (see addendum) and climate activists have a desire to continue our world because they feel positively towards it. They may even believe it’s perfect. A dose of Voltaire (see addendum) would cure that belief.

The ‘evidence’ activists use is evocative. Starving polar bears, flooded cities, savage droughts, storm damage and so on. Worse: people starving after crop failure for whatever reason. This is extrapolated forward as if it was evidence of systemic failure. Let’s suppose it is. In the aeons of time unfolding it might be that these events are seen as trivially contingent and unimportant. Let’s suppose that they’re real and important. And that that is the world they’ve inherited. So what?

Current generations can chose, or not, to rectify the damage (if it is damage) that’s been caused by a fossil fuel based society. We don’t know how unborn generations will live, or what they will need to live, or even if there will be any unborn generations. We do know that we can mitigate what is considered, by a majority of educated opinion, to be a disaster. Only unborn generations will know whether climate change is a disaster. In the meantime we make a Leap of Faith which reflects our belief in a continuing world and try to mitigate the changes our use of fossil fuels is causing.

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Leibniz (d. 1716) formulated the concept ‘The best of all possible worlds’ in his attempt to prove that God created a perfect earth. Voltaire (d. 1778) satirised Leibniz with his character Dr Pangloss who resolutely ignored hideous events in his maintenance of the concept.

Note

* How can they demand anything: they’re unborn.

Sources

For the Is/Ought problem see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem

For the cost of mitigation of climate change see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48540004 This is only for the UK

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For Voltaire’s Dr Pangloss see http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/candide/character/pangloss/

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For a Leap of Faith see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_of_faith

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Just when everyone thought satire was dead the UK’s morbidly obese Prime Minster decided to lead an anti-obesity campaign. It had taken a near-death Covid-19 experience to convince him that being morbidly obese was unhealthy. A quick learner with an eye for detail!

I thought that if he’s into satire he might like the Four Yorkshiremen sketch by Monty Python to provide him with more ideas. Perhaps how hard it was to be brought up in a world of privilege by his multi-millionaire parents?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k

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Until I’d read this book I hadn’t appreciated how tame police procedurals novels are. The maverick Detective Inspector heroically cuts corners. There’s always a common-sense explanation, which everyone except the bureaucratic Assistant Chief Constable accepts. He’s standing in the way of real policing. The DI is a 老王2.2.3. A A Dhand’s principal character, Harry Virdee, has moral ambiguity, which is charming, but ultimately there’s a whiff of righteousness hanging in Bradford’s air.

Ted Lewis is a c rime write who invented Brit Noir.* He doesn’t do nice. If you buy his book you’re getting blood soaked crime hence the unambiguous title – GBH. You enter a world of extreme violence executed with ruthless efficiency: sadistic ruthless efficiency.

Mr Fowler’ is how we first meet George Fowler. He and his wife, with principal accomplice Mickey Brice, torture a man in the living room of an associate. A living room! A truly horrible touch by Lewis. From then on we see Fowler’s descent into alcohol and violence fuelled insanity. He enjoys violence too much, 老王2.2.0 clouds his judgement. His associates see he’s a liability 【老皮/皮肤视频】LOL EZ新未来战士与电玩皮肤对比视频 ...:2021-12-11 · flash插件异常,下载官方flash 插件 英雄联盟 01:18 【皮肤对比】阿卡丽新版鬼舞姬皮肤与旧版鬼舞姬皮肤对比 ... 二次元LoveDM直播重回《LOL》,VN输出逆天,结果..... 二 二次元LoveDM 03:53 LOL电玩系列全皮肤视频 夜 夜猫丶蛋 游戏 娱加欢乐 Ta的视频 ... He escapes to Mablethorpe, 老王2.2.3and the parallel story.

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老王vn官网Get Carter was based on one of Lewis’s books.

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My sales manager pulled up in a new Tesla Model S and I complimented him on it. 

He said, “Well, if you set goals, you’re determined, and you work really hard and put in long hours, I can trade up to a Model D next year.

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