Yes. That there must be a hundred names on that list from the UN secretary general, presidents and prime ministers on downwards and thats the one you choose zero in on ?
That says rather more about you than anything else frankly :roll:
Yes there are a handful of diplomats on the list. So what? Most of them are random journalists, spokesmen, or people I've never heard of. And probably 90% of the quotes on that list are so blatantly taken out of context that I'd bet money most of them are being deceptively portrayed. But you raise no specific objection to any specific quote so what the **** else do you want me to do? Go through the entire list and explain how each item is probably bull****? If I pick out certain ones, you'll just whine about cherry picking no matter what method I use.
If this list contains a literal terrorist, doesn't that say more about you? The fact that you accepted this list at face value, accepted all of these quotes unquestioningly. It didn't occur to you that this site might be full of ****, because someone using
Osama Bin ****ing Laden quotes to attack environmentalists is
clearly full of ****.
So you want to go with people with power. Here's Harry Reid:
Quote by Harry Reid, Democrat, U.S. Senate majority leader: "Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world."
Something sinister about this?
How about this?
Quote by UN Commission on Global Biodiversity Assessment: "A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible."
They're saying the entire planet can't consume at US per capita rates. Something sinister about that? Sure, you probably assume they're wrong, because of course you would, but where's the conspiracy?
How many of these do you want to bet I can find on Snopes?
Quote by UN chief Ban Ki-moon: "Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate change consequences so it is morally and politically correct that the developed world who made this climate change be responsible by providing financial support and technological support to these people."
People who caused damage have a responsibility to those they harmed? ****ing communism right there!
Quote by a co-director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition:
Why are we quoting an unnamed child?
Here's something for future reference. When you see this:
You need to be skeptical. Because there's two ways to use an ellipses.
1) "
It was wonderful, director Steven Spielberg is fantastic,
an amazing film." becomes "It was wonderful... an amazing film." Saves space, keeps the original intent of the statement.
2) "I hated this film. The studio wants me to say
it was a great film but out of professional responsibility I have to tell you how awful it was." becomes "...it was a great film." Changes the meaning dramatically.
Now, look at a list like this one. A man willing to use
Osama Bin Laden as a quote source for "prominent environmentalists." Look me in the internet-equivalent of an eye and tell me you trust that man's ellipses.
