It is very infrequent that something posted to the Internet is lost for ever. This means that once you have said or done something stupid on the Internet it is there for ever, or until the Apocalypse.
This problem for people posting includes even the United Nations.
Regards — Cliff
Mr. Watts is feeling good about himself, as he delivers what he believes to be the coup-de-grace.
ReplyDeleteHis "evidence" is the census data. Stunningly ambiguous.
Imagine an island with a fixed habital area. If sea level rises, the habital area will shrink, one would think. Those effected, forced to move, become refugees.
Mr. Watts census data demonstrates that population in selected examples have increased. Yet, he mentions nothing about the population density, meaning more people crammed onto less space.
I don't mean to defend the U.N.'s projections. But, Mr. Watts tell us nothing, except that some tech poohbah at the U.N. got the jitters.
But, while a question of crowding on islands is interesting and worth pursuing, so is the question of transparency and openness as the UN. Unfortunately, the UN is not so much about world peace as it is about agendas looking to get around what we might characterize as "Truth, Justice and the American Way", which I still find to be good guideposts. I don't see the UN being about minority rights, for example.
ReplyDeleteRegards — Cliff
Except when "the American Way" is a sticker slapped upon American Exceptionalism and Neocolonialism.
ReplyDeleteIn those cases, Truth is hard to find, so I try to stick with Justice.