Damian on lunatics

Jan 10, 2011
Bishop Hill in Climate: Sceptics, Greens, Media

Damian Carrington is discussing violence over at the GuardianEco blog, inspired (if that is the right word)  by events in Arizona. His point is that there are lots of threats of violence around the fringes of the climate debate, and he refers to emails that were apparently sent to Stephen Schneider and Leo Hickman.

Damian is right of course, but I do wonder if he is going to raise the subject of George Monbiot too, the great man having opined thusly?

...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

As Damian puts it,

So it's clear that even in issues such as climate change there is an active fringe of people deploying violent rhetoric and hate mail against those with whom they disagree. Could that tip the balance between thought and action in the mind of an unstable individual? It's a worryingly plausible thought.

I find it hard to disagree.

Article originally appeared on (http://www.bishop-hill.net/).