In other words you are young - I knew there must be advantages in beign
old somewhere!
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:00:24 GMT0BST David Wood
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> >
> > Prof P Stott is a GEOGRAPHER at SOAS !!!!!!!!
>
> Some brief info. on Stott
>
> Philip Stott is well known as an anti-environmentalist, associated
> with both the right-wing Institute for Economic Affairs and the
> fundamentalist left groups around the now-defunct LM magazine
> (Revolutionary Communist Party and all that), particularly those who
> produced the 'Against Nature' series on Channel 4. He has changed his
> argument many times over the years from 'global warming isn't
> happening' through 'global warming is happening but it is natural' to
> 'global warming is happening and it could possibly be down to us but
> it's good' etc and various combinations thereof. His specialism is
> the historical geography of Thailand and South-East Asian forests,
> which makes him no more qualified to judge the rightness of climate
> change modelling than most of the rest of us, but he certainly
> believes he does have some form of superior rational intellect,
> defining environmental activists (or indeed scientists who don't
> share his views) as: "dysfunctional and/or self-appointed bigot[s]
> (normally young, intellectually retarded, or having a tantrum because
> they are not getting their own way) who tramples over everybody else
> in the name of their own Environmental dillusions..."
>
> His current campaign is on biotechnology - see his website at:
> <http://www.probiotech.fsnet.co.uk/>
> This shares exactly the same problems as GM opponents, i.e.: its
> all black and white for him. Biotech HAS to be good because it is
> scientific progress, and anybody who suggests otherwise wants to kill
> poor people and prevent human development. Personally I think it is
> a little bit more complicated than this, but then how can I possibly
> have an opinion worth considering since I am obviously a
> dysfunctional intellectually-retarded bigot!
>
>
> David.
>
> Dr David Wood
>
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> Policy Learning in the Common Fisheries Policy
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