The new European Union president is President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic, and he does not believe in climate change. He thinks that it is a dangerous myth.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5430362.ece

I think that it’s dangerous to heed the consult of a few rogue scientists while ignoring the consensus of the majority. You can’t choose which part of science you want to believe in, and which part you don’t. People will depend on science when they fly on a plane, or go to the doctor but once science becomes even a moderate inconvenience the first reaction is to bury ones head in the sand.

I find opposition to environmentalism a little odd. Even if the current scientific consensus turns out to be wrong, what’s the worst case scenario? We have clean air to breathe, our drinking water isn’t contaminated, there are some trees left?

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Fashion designer Karl Lagerfield recently defended the fur industry saying; ‘it is justified as the beasts fur comes from would kill us if they could’.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionnews/4075783/Karl-Lagerfeld-defends-fur-industry-saying-beasts-would-kill-us-if-we-didnt-kill-them.html

Silly me, I wasn’t even aware that large primates were in a mink’s diet.

In seriousness though, he does have a point when he says; “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.” I think that’s true, if you criticize someone for wearing fur & then order a steak dinner, you’re a hypocrite.

I also understand what he said about the media’s exaggeration of models being too skinny. If we’re saying that skinny women can’t be in the public eye because it might make 1% of girls too skinny. Then I am saying take all fat people off of television because it has made 30% of people too fat. And obesity is one of the greatest health crises of our time.

But still, ‘kill us if they could’, really?!

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