The battle about global warming is supposedly all about science, but it is also about economics and history. The war on carbon fuels promoted by the Deep Greens is not a road to the future - it is a slippery slide to the past. Their policies threaten to take us back to a time when, as Churchill said “the world was for the few and the very few”. Another described life then as “nasty, brutish and short”.
As a key member of the opinion making profession, you owe it to future generations to make sure you understand the role that technology and carbon fuels have played in bringing security and the benefits of civilisation to our generations. And an understanding that, by choice or by default, we can easily reverse this process back to poverty and famine.
There is nothing inevitable about progress and prosperity. As Cuba, North Korea and many others have shown, destruction is far easier than construction. This is a battle for ideas, and lovers of science, freedom and enterprise are losing.
Can I suggest that you spend a few moments to download the pdf link here. It is an easy read with an important message.
Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, has spent his life working in exploration, mining, farming, infrastructure, financial analysis and political commentary. He has worked for government departments, private companies and now works as a private contractor and farmer.
Viv has also been a guest writer for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Queensland and mining newspapers. He was awarded the “Australian Adam Smith Award for Services to the Free Society” in 1988, and has written widely on political, technical and economic subjects.
