tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post4415691250361096507..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: More on the Swedish SchoolgirlFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-43589669347375271202019-06-13T20:41:46.269+01:002019-06-13T20:41:46.269+01:00I am sorry to learn, Randolph Crane, that you hate...I am sorry to learn, Randolph Crane, that you hate Greta Thunberg, and that the strength of your feeling is so great that you refer to her by using the (customarily uncharitable) word "brat". Do you feel able to tell us why you hate her so much?<br /><br />Terry Loane<br />Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551041799064065025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-89472953302423577492019-06-13T20:39:41.514+01:002019-06-13T20:39:41.514+01:00"The Swedish Schoolgirl" actually has a ..."The Swedish Schoolgirl" actually has a name. And surely it behoves us, contributors to this blog, to recognise her human dignity by acknowledging that she does have a name. She is Greta Thunberg.<br /><br />I quite like the following, from #357 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "Being in the image of God the human individual possesses the dignity of a person, who is not Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551041799064065025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-78300043493845170282019-06-08T13:12:00.427+01:002019-06-08T13:12:00.427+01:00Thank you for not calling her a "child" ...Thank you for not calling her a "child" unlike some Swedes.<br /><br />Lots of ancestresses of King George III were married at her age.Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-57517178681376119582019-06-07T17:11:02.989+01:002019-06-07T17:11:02.989+01:00Is it a mortal sin when I say how much I hate this...Is it a mortal sin when I say how much I hate this brat? Forgive my language.Randolph Cranehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16696593312319487318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-9184857351981509032019-06-07T16:22:39.630+01:002019-06-07T16:22:39.630+01:00And let us hope (albeit without any expectation) t...And let us hope (albeit without any expectation) that the effects on the climate and environment of the following are studied: 1) divorce, and the subsequent rise of single occupancy households, 2) the availability of abortion, 3) contraception, 4) Sunday trading, 5) "women's lib." I am aware that I personally take a slightly more liberal line (not enough to make me socially 'Colin Spinkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06187466247865796371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-62630384898352229462019-06-07T12:48:29.102+01:002019-06-07T12:48:29.102+01:00I have read plausible claims that subsequent resea...I have read plausible claims that subsequent research indicates that DDT was never the problem that was alleged. Those poor people in undeveloped tropical areas that have continued to suffer from the mosquito/malaria scourge might not look upon the issue with such sanguinity.<br /><br />I am not as convinced as some posters here that the classification by our elites of Carbon Dioxide, as Michael Leahyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15044897013849386271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-66724624935885617722019-06-07T12:11:03.407+01:002019-06-07T12:11:03.407+01:00Er, one of the *problems* of DDT was the million o...Er, one of the *problems* of DDT was the million or so people a year it stopped being killed by malaria.<br /><br />DDT has a downside, to be sure, but it can be usefully employed at much, much lower levels than it was, and in restricted areas, such as under house eaves. It's a repellent as well as a lethal agent against mosquitoes as well. And like other sorts of air defense, one doesn'tEd the Romanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13646391834821547517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-37438281667750423902019-06-06T21:07:24.744+01:002019-06-06T21:07:24.744+01:00We don't hear so much about the ozone layer th...We don't hear so much about the ozone layer these days, because the world's leaders recognised the problem and agreed measures to tackle it. The problem was detected when Mrs Thatcher was Prime Minister. Her first degree was in industrial chemistry, she understood the problem and the solution, and persuaded other world leaders to take action. The world has also been successful in facing E sapelionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09886268559214926797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-22569088791504885752019-06-06T21:04:07.758+01:002019-06-06T21:04:07.758+01:00Nor acid rain.Nor acid rain.Highland Cathedralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07519428794618769856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-71106409386964948782019-06-06T13:16:39.983+01:002019-06-06T13:16:39.983+01:00There is only good news about the ozone layer thes...There is only good news about the ozone layer these days because it was agreed in the Montreal Protocol in 1987 that governments would ban or highly restrict use of the chemicals which were depleting it. The ozone layer is likely to return to 1980 levels within forty years. It was a great success which proves the viability of concerted action to conserve the composition of the atmosphere. PerhapsCalvin Engimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03598204520857427596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-17582328761909411432019-06-06T12:13:41.938+01:002019-06-06T12:13:41.938+01:00On the ozone level - we don't hear as much sim...On the ozone level - we don't hear as much simply because the massive campaigns to change things actually seem to have worked. <br /><br />The release of the damaging chemicals into the atmosphere slowed drastically after the Montreal Protocol was adopted 30 years ago; depletion rates reduced significantly and by 2016 there was research showing that ozone levels were starting to recover (daldredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16536691352877083778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-40187975712992160032019-06-06T12:13:14.968+01:002019-06-06T12:13:14.968+01:00On the ozone level - we don't hear as much sim...On the ozone level - we don't hear as much simply because the massive campaigns to change things actually seem to have worked. <br /><br />The release of the damaging chemicals into the atmosphere slowed drastically after the Montreal Protocol was adopted 30 years ago; depletion rates reduced significantly and by 2016 there was research showing that ozone levels were starting to recover (daldredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16536691352877083778noreply@blogger.com