The debate is far from over

For sure, children must be given a fair and balanced view of current issues in small doses. But the media tells children otherwise. The real debate (we never had), they falsely claim, is over. Then, they pile on, and on, and on.

Apparently, “the gun debate” is also over, “the abortion debate” is over, and even the “capital punishment debate” is over (in spite of the fact that over 50 per cent of Australians support the death penalty). In other words, whenever the cultural left is lost for words, the debate is always over. Then, they pile on, and on, and on.

Funnily enough, in Stalin’s Red Russia, the “debate over Christianity” was always over too. And, how long will sceptics have to wait to hear that the “debate” over “global warming” is over for the 100th time? Translation: shut up, and stop thinking.

“I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot the birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot the birds,” said Paul Watson, the overwrought co-founder of Greenpeace in Access to Energy, December 1982.

The debate is over? Today, Channel 7’s campaigning journalists treat Greenpeace’s talking points as indisputable facts. Revealingly, “fair debate” in this country is reduced to listening to Captain Planet’s recycled monologues.

And consider this: “We in the Green movement,” said Carl Amery of the Green Party in Mensch & Energie, April, 1983, “aspire to a cultural model in which the killing of a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of six-year-old children to Asian brothels.” The debate is over?

Perhaps our watchdog media needs to reexamine the root causes of this “green” movement. In 2007, the writing and presenting classes seem more emotionally invested in proclaiming the rights of “drowning polar bears” over defenceless children in brothels.

Ignore the fact that many scientists are breaking ranks. The very “debate is over” argument, to be sure, was always cultic in nature. Science shouldn’t ever be based on a show of hands, or Channel Seven’s Sunrise show sermons. Verifying facts, questioning hypotheses, and so on, is not a sign of weakness, but one of strength. The rest is garbage.