I’m going to be a party-pooper and tell you that the anonymous little boy (or Hans Brink as some say) was actually an American author’s invention.
The statue in honour of the little Dutch boy was just to appease tourists who kept asking the bemused Dutch where the famous dike was. I forget where I saw the statue.
The symbology used here therefore doesn’t bode well for the Climate Change debate. Which begs the questions:
Is the cartoonist saying it’s a myth? ? Is the cartoonist onboard but pessimistic? Is he agreeing but issuing a dire warning? Or did something happen in South America which I missed?
(Ha! It doesn’t allow me to write bleeep so I used dike And of course it’s in ViewsLatinAmerica ‘cos the character in the ‘toon is er,..yeah, well, ‘nuff said.)
It’s not just the US, heard on Radio4 this morning which was reporting on the coming Copenhagen summit, that in the UK about half of the British don’t believe that man is responsible for the Climate Change (the change isn’t in doubt, just that man is causing it. I think Puppy keeps underlining that).
I say it is more to do with the fact that what is really being asked of people is not to just understand that man is causing the climate change to some degree, it is that their habits should change, that there is going to be a little pain. Their reluctance to do so seems to make them more likely to become sceptics.
Fundamentalism isn’t restricted to the Islamic faith. Fundamentalism is growing here in the UK and elsewhere; in all faiths.
Read this forum to witness Christian Fundamentalism. It is gob-smacking to read complaints of Islamic Fundamentalism without the loudest complainers realising that they are fundamentalists themselves and part of the problem.
^^Sometimes he says, “There is no God.” And then he says, “I speak for God.” Which is it, Troll-man? You have demonstrated your ignorance in regards to this subject…
OmqR-IV.0 over 14 years ago
I’m going to be a party-pooper and tell you that the anonymous little boy (or Hans Brink as some say) was actually an American author’s invention. The statue in honour of the little Dutch boy was just to appease tourists who kept asking the bemused Dutch where the famous dike was. I forget where I saw the statue.
The symbology used here therefore doesn’t bode well for the Climate Change debate. Which begs the questions: Is the cartoonist saying it’s a myth? ? Is the cartoonist onboard but pessimistic? Is he agreeing but issuing a dire warning? Or did something happen in South America which I missed?
(Ha! It doesn’t allow me to write bleeep so I used dike And of course it’s in ViewsLatinAmerica ‘cos the character in the ‘toon is er,..yeah, well, ‘nuff said.)
Durak Premium Member over 14 years ago
Myth or not we get the idea.
OmqR-IV.0 over 14 years ago
Well, Science loses ground among Americans as nation’s greatest achievement: survey In 1999 47% said so. This year 27% said so.
The actual survey:
OmqR-IV.0 over 14 years ago
It’s not just the US, heard on Radio4 this morning which was reporting on the coming Copenhagen summit, that in the UK about half of the British don’t believe that man is responsible for the Climate Change (the change isn’t in doubt, just that man is causing it. I think Puppy keeps underlining that). I say it is more to do with the fact that what is really being asked of people is not to just understand that man is causing the climate change to some degree, it is that their habits should change, that there is going to be a little pain. Their reluctance to do so seems to make them more likely to become sceptics. Fundamentalism isn’t restricted to the Islamic faith. Fundamentalism is growing here in the UK and elsewhere; in all faiths. Read this forum to witness Christian Fundamentalism. It is gob-smacking to read complaints of Islamic Fundamentalism without the loudest complainers realising that they are fundamentalists themselves and part of the problem.
NoFearPup over 14 years ago
^,^^You pay for it.
OmqR-IV.0 over 14 years ago
^ And there we have it.
Magnaut over 14 years ago
wrong dike
NoFearPup over 14 years ago
^^Sometimes he says, “There is no God.” And then he says, “I speak for God.” Which is it, Troll-man? You have demonstrated your ignorance in regards to this subject…