* Posts by paul thomas

2 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jul 2008

The FDRs of Green explain the gentle art of planet saving

paul thomas

Anti environmentalism?

I suppose I branded these stories anti-environmentalism due to the slew of recent highly polemic articles in The Register claiming that climate change isn't a really a problem. So I guess that's more climate-skeptic than anti-environmentalism.

By all means have a go at The Guardian when you feel they've got things wrong, as they admittedly do sometimes, however the tone of the article was a bit more "they've said it and they're freakish lefties so it must be wrong"

Of course people should be able to write about and debate these issues, I guess I just find it surprising, and slightly random, for The Reg to be doing it.

I always enjoyed The Reg because it was skeptical about everything - now it seems to have an agenda more akin to Spiked than a predominantly IT/technology website.

I don't mean this to be a rant - I enjoy reading things I disagree with as much as things I do, just surprised to be reading them here.

As for my own opinion, I'm not entirely sure about the solutions, but I do doubt that the business-as-usual-perhaps-with-the-odd-tiny-tweak, which The Reg seems to be vigorously pushing now really is the answer to challenges we face.

paul thomas

Spot on, Breakfast

These strange, right-wing, free market, reliously anti-environmentalism articles appearing on the Register are really starting to puzzle me. Just seem very out of place on a site like this. The Reg is starting to read more and more like some right-wing pundit's blog - which is a real shame I think, whether you agree with these views or not. I'd also hoped that IT people especially would be sceptical about polemics like this, whether coming from left or right.