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Thursday 4 February 2010

FREI, BABY, FREI

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Matt Frei's diary could become compulsive reading, though for all the wrong reasons. I just thought I'd click at random on another article, Evangelical and environmental? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8405108.stm
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The theme is 'Climate Change':
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"According to a BBC News/Harris Poll, the number of Americans who worry that carbon emissions are slowly heating our planet like a lobster pot has actually declined in the last eight years by 25%.
Despite Hurricane Katrina, which rang alarm bells about the connection between climate change and menacing weather, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and a photo album of environmental horrors from melting ice caps to rising sea levels to receding glaciers
(ha!), fewer Americans are convinced today that the planet is in peril because of human behaviour.
Global warming has cooled off alarmingly on the list of priorities."
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After dismissing 'Climategate' as a "brouhaha", Matty goes on to give us this peach of a paragraph - pure Matt Frei: "The evangelical movement is split between those conservative Christians who suspect that climate change is an evil secular plot, concocted by the devil, Al Gore and "the global government crowd" - in the words of Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher - and those who passionately believe that good Christians need to be good custodians of the planet." Can you guess which side Frei doesn't approve of?
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3 comments:

  1. This is utterly surreal and I haven't been drinking !
    Maybe Matty is taking some time to adjust to the new strain of Coca-cola in the US !

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  2. Are you sure you're not confusing 'compulsive' with 'repulsive'?

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