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Thread #171425   Message #4146517
Posted By: Steve Shaw
06-Jul-22 - 05:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: why is the news so wearying right now?
Subject: RE: BS: why is the news so wearying right now?
A couple of points, however. You emphasise more than once the fact that Putin is a man. Well Margaret Thatcher also started an unjustified war. It's true enough that most conflicts are caused by men at the top, but, at least in part, that's a reflection of the fact that men are overwhelmingly the people in power. You might argue that there would be fewer wars were more women at the heads of governments. You could be right, but you don't know for sure.

Who was it who asked whether there shall be womanly times, or shall we die?

The other thing is that we should be careful not to assign disasters to nature when that might not be justified. I've seen Californian wildfires and floods in Sydney ascribed to Mother Nature. Unfortunately, the increasing consensus among scientists is that man-made climate change is the culprit. It's important that we recognise that, because if we don't we won't think that we have to do anything to fix it.