Belief in climate change

The BBC has decided to cancel Planet Relief, which as it sounds was a planned night of campaigning similar to Comic Relief, but for the environment. The decision appears to have been prompted to avoid criticisms of bias. Which is a bit like them cancelling Lenny Henry et al with the rationale that there are people that blame those suffering in the less developed world for their own plight.

But let's say for argument's sake that the climate change sceptics have a point. I think that Pascal's Wager applies to this scenario. There is too much to be lost by carrying on the way we are, and nothing to lose by being greener. Actually, everyone wins by changing course. There is nothing at all wrong in saying that we want to clean up the world, have more breathable air, and conserve energy. All of these things are noble pursuits, regardless of how important you think it is to do them.

Comments

[Rory Winter]

Osama, I know it's off-topic but Please Read This

We desperately need to alert Londoners about this racist demo. Also see current leading article on Stef Zucconi's blog, Famous for 15 Megapixels.

[Neil Craig]

By Pascal theory we should also burn little old ladies on the off chance that they might fly off on their broosticks & bring hurricaoes round here.

Actually that would be more sensible since Kyoto cost £400 million every day, which could save hundreds of millions of lives, whereas witchburning only killed a few hundred thousand.