My previous post gave a summary of March 6th’s What’s Natural? column in the ‘libertarian’ Pacifica Tribune. So I’ll dive straight into this, the “too long, didn’t read” part 2 intended for the student of libertarian deception. Here I dissect the words and offer links to serious sources for the other side of Steele assertions.
Glib misrepresentations, insulting experts and weaving transparently deceptive tales is easy - learning the facts and understanding our biosphere and climate engine that’s what requires some serious self-starter effort. Like the difference between a vandal and a builder.
Jim Steele’s, What’s Natural? Pacifica Tribune | March 6, 2019
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{Since this is a Virtual Debate I drift back and forth between addressing Steele and addressing my readers}
First paragraph, Steele gets into the Heaven’s Gate Suicide Cult. Guess, to fluff up his audience. When Steele tossed in:
Steele: “the Heaven's Gate Cult. Highlv educated members …”
I though I’d investigate, turns out People magazine printed a little bio of the unfortunates. Not to disparage, but educationally they were actually a decidedly middling crowd: https://people.com/archive/cover-story-who-they-were-vol-47-no-14/. Reading it, lonely people looking for simple answers is what came to my mind.
Odious sensationalistic smoke and mirrors, reckon it’s all one's left with when one doesn’t have any facts on their side?
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Second paragraph, launches into some heavy handed self promotion.
Steele: “I’ve pointed out how over-hunting and invasive organisms endanger species. I’ve noted island extinctions occurred when humans imported rats, cats and mosquitos that attacked ill-prepared native species.”
Come on Jim, who’s kidding whom, that’s been text book stuff since I was in school, why do you spin it into sounding like original work or something?
Steele: “My research in the Sierra Nevada restored a watershed …”
I think the Sierra Valley Resource Conservation District (sierravalleyrcd.com) might not agree with Jim’s self-serving assessment.
