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“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone. We have but a defective idea of what prejudice is. It might be said, that until men think for themselves the whole is prejudice, and not opinion; for that only is opinion which is the result of reason and reflection.”
― The Rights Of Man
― The Rights Of Man
“Second, from local green activist groups up to behemoth NGOs like Greenpeace and WWF, over the last twenty years the environmental movement has espoused saving the planet from global warming as its leitmotif. This has had two devastating results. One is that radical environmentalists have worked relentlessly to sow misinformation about global warming in both the public domain and the education system. And the other is that, faced with this widespread propagandisation of public opinion and young persons—and also by strong lobbying from powerful self-interested groups like government research scientists, alternative energy providers and financial marketeers—politicians have had no choice but to fall into line.”
― Climate Change: The Facts
― Climate Change: The Facts
“it is in how you meet the conditions of life that the quality of life inheres, not in the events or circumstances themselves.”
― A Wanderer's Handbook
― A Wanderer's Handbook
“Third, and perhaps most influential of all, with very few exceptions major media outlets have provided unceasing support for measures to ‘stop global warming’. This behaviour appears to be driven by a combination of the left-wing (‘liberal’ in the US sense) and green personal beliefs of most reporters, and the commercial nose of experienced editors who understand that alarmist environmental reporting sells both product and advertising space.”
― Climate Change: The Facts
― Climate Change: The Facts
“Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power. But the person who either acquires, or succeeds to a great fortune, does not necessarily acquire or succeed to any political power, either civil or military. His fortune may, perhaps, afford him the means of acquiring both; but the mere possession of that fortune does not necessarily convey to him either. The power which that possession immediately and directly conveys to him, is the power of purchasing a certain command over all the labour, or over all the produce of labour which is then in the market. His fortune is greater or less, precisely in proportion to the extent of this power, or to the quantity either of other men's labour, or, what is the same thing, of the produce of other men's labour, which it enables him to purchase or command. The exchangeable value of every thing must always be precisely equal to the extent of this power which it conveys to its owner.”
― The Wealth of Nations
― The Wealth of Nations
John’s 2025 Year in Books
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