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Grotesque demand from @georgemonbiot that the Government ban ‘lies’.
A child of six could work out that governments empowered to ban lies could limit any criticism on such grounds.
Trust the people. They are the best judges of what is true and false. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/27/covid-lies-cost-lives-right-clamp-down-misinformation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
A child of six could work out that governments empowered to ban lies could limit any criticism on such grounds.
Trust the people. They are the best judges of what is true and false. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/27/covid-lies-cost-lives-right-clamp-down-misinformation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Of course @GeorgeMonbiot wasn’t always so keen on fact-checking bogus science - when @Martin_Durkin took apart Mae Wan Ho’s Lysenkoist claptrap on Channel4 Monbiot denounced the effrontery
Back then @GeorgeMonbiot was backing the scientifically baseless green scaremongering over GM foods and hoping that Michael Meacher would succeed in having them banned https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/feb/19/food.foodanddrink1?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@GeorgeMonbiot’s Heat (2005) is full of alarmist claims - such as this that China’s rice production will fall by 30 per cent by 2020 whereas in fact it grew by ten per cent to 200m tonnes. Wouldn’t Monbiot as a scientist want to know why his prediction had been so wrong? Crickets
Monbiot’s assumption in Heat is that global warming would reduce crop production - but the opposite is true, worldwide crops continued to grow
Monbiot also predicted an increase in Malaria - though he was wrong about that, incidences of Malaria continue to fall
Monbiot says that we have to reduce carbon emissions to 2.7 billion tonnes by 2030 (Heat, p 16). Since then emissions have grown to 22 billion tonnes a year, so that’s a target we are likely to miss.
Monbiot said in 2006 that we will soon run out of petroleum (Heat, p 56), but in fact production just keeps increasing
And despite these many false claims and predictions @GeorgeMonbiot has never addressed why he gets so many things wrong. It’s an utterly unscientific attitude. Rather than asking where he went wrong he just loads another mad claim onto the pile hoping to distract your attention.
