Follow John Howard! Deny Unpleasant Reality With What You "Instinctively Feel"!
It's liberating, throwing caution to the wind. From now on, I'm going to live my life based on how I ''instinctively feel''. And I'm in good company. Former prime minister John Howard set the mark last week in London, when he told the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a gathering of climate ''agnostics'' and ''sceptics'', that the ''high tide of public support for over-zealous action on global warming has passed''. ''My suspicion is that most people in countries like ours have settled into a state of sustained agnosticism on the issue,'' Howard said.
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''I instinctively feel that some of the claims are exaggerated.'' Why not, I say.
I ''instinctively feel'', as an ex-smoker, that cigarettes hold a particular old-world, counter-culture charm perfectly encapsulated by the moody beauty of film noir - think Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum in the 1947 classic Out of the Past.
Earlier this year, taken in by the scientists and their ''alarmist conclusions'', I became convinced that catastrophe could be right around the corner if I continued to smoke, and went through a god-awful cold-turkey process to quit. But I now see I was wrong. Like most smokers, I never thought that I would get lung cancer or heart disease. I instinctively felt that some of the medical profession's claims were exaggerated. Now? I see that I can never be ''absolutely certain'' that all the science is in.
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http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/worlds-burning-but-mind-how-you-feel-20131109-2x8dv.html