Some Climate Change Deniers Are Like The Flat Earth Brigade!

MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE that politics simply consists of making as much noise as possible via demonstrations, pickets and so on. Whilst various forms of street activism are important, they’re not the be all & end all of politics.

In fact, it’s probably true to say that more than enough serious political work goes on behind the scenes, as opposed to on the streets. Indeed, well disciplined & orderly large-scale street activities simply wouldn’t take place if it wasn’t for backroom planning.

But working behind the scenes is not as exciting – or ‘glamourous’ – as taking part in demonstrations. Therefore, many people are put off by what are viewed as boring & repetitive administrative tasks.

It could be argued that writing letters to the press – especially the local press – falls under this category. Nevertheless, it remains a great way of getting National Liberal points of view across to the public and/or promoting constructive & respectful debate.

An example of this is reproduced below.

Here, Brent Cheetham, the NLPs well-known Councillor for Cuffley (in Hertfordshire) managed to get a letter published yesterday in the Hertfordshire Mercury under their banner headline of Some Climate Change Deniers Are Like The Flat Earth Brigade!

Hopefully, this form of respectful public engagement will help promote the ongoing debate about climate change.

Dear Sirs,

In my humble view Mr Jeremy Hall asks some valid questions regarding some folks’ attitude to “climate change” and the environment.

At one time there was great opposition to having plumbed in hot and cold running water to our houses. Something taken nowadays for granted and something that the health of the country has greatly improved due to better sanitation.

There were protest meetings held across the country as to the imposition of this much needed improvement to the nation’s health and well-being.

And just like some of the so-called climate change deniers, such folk even refused to acknowledge that there was a problem even though such a problem was held in plain sight.

Most folk nowadays just laugh at the opposition to plumbed in water, and the most famous saying at the time against plumbed in water was “If you give baths to the working class, they will only use it to store coal.”

Probably most folk of my generation will be pushing up daisies before climate change has a real impact on us?

This is beside the point, as what we should be thinking about is not ourselves but future generations and not the short-term benefits that fossil fuels can provide. We need to discuss our over reliance on such fuels.

Some of the more extreme climate change deniers remind me of that small group of individuals who still claim the earth is flat. My guess and hope is that future generations will just laugh at those folk today who refuse to move on and are just stuck in the rut of the past. Are they becoming just part of the cultural residue of a bygone age?