I'll bet myself a nice bottle of Malbec my MP doesn't get back to me.  Either he doesn't give a shit about what I have to say; or some staffer checked his e-mail and threw out my cranky non-crank letter.  Absent a response, I certainly sha'n't be eating my words...


On the other hand, all I did was "google" "critique of climate change" and I found this magnificent piece of writing—which is not at all political and is rationally laid out and well-balanced.  Here is an example of what I consider to be very good writing (and yes, I did read the whole thing):

"I submit that unless global warming unleashes appalling penalties—in which case, the climate crisis and biodepletion will merge into one devastating event for virtually all life—the implications of humanity’s impact on biodiversity are so far-reaching that they may, in reality, dwarf the repercussions of climate change."

I hasten to say that I'm not a scientist.  I still think there is doubt that we are responsible for an increase in the temperature of the whole Earth's atmosphere and biomes.

But my mind meets with that of Ms. Crist in that there is much more to this problem than fits into one of Al Gore's polemics!

"The knowledge that biodiversity is in deep trouble has been available for at least three decades, but this momentous event has never inspired the urgency that climate change has triggered in a handful of years. This seems to be a blatant manifestation of anthropocentrism."

The problems created by anthropocentrism, or the foolish attitude that only humans are of any importance, cannot be solved through anthropophobia (human repression) any more than they can be solved by the status quo... or by stupid human bandaids such as geoengineering, ie: pollution...

"When we speak we must be alert not only to what we are saying, but to what we are doing with our speech—how what we are saying has a good deal of shaping power over the world."

Exactly why I became a poet—because I felt this world's pain.  The whole reason I'm here today.