PALI LEHOHLA | How to go nuclear on the idiots: we pull no punches on the PCC report
The Presidential Climate Commission is being dangerously disingenuous if not deliberately deceitful
23 July 2023 - 19:50
The recent Presidential Climate Commission consultative paper is welcome as a matter of procedure but not in its content. To lay the ground for my arguments, I reflect on Athens. Socrates the philosopher, who was sentenced to death in 369BC by popular vote and not by logical reasoning, had offended the Greek authorities by advocating for an election model of democracy. He detested the mercantilist general dealer form of democracy. It is said the birth place of democracy, Athens, was an arena known more for rhetoric that was unconstrained by any commitment to facts. ..
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