Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Paul McCartney, who rose to fame in the 1960s as a member of The Beatles, has expressed his frustration at our failure to heed the climate message, by writing a song aimed at President Trump and other “climate deniers”.
Paul McCartney on handling crowds, and why he calls Donald Trump “the mad captain”
By Mark Savage
BBC Music reporter
13 September 2018…
But the album’s angriest moment comes on Despite Repeated Warnings – a diatribe about climate change deniers, with a lyric that couldn’t be more timely or relevant: “Those who shout the loudest/May not always be the smartest.”
“People who deny climate change… I just think it’s the most stupid thing ever,” says the star.
“So I just wanted to make a song that would talk about that and basically say, ‘Occasionally, we’ve got a mad captain sailing this boat we’re all on and he is just going to take us to the iceberg [despite] being warned it’s not a cool idea.'”
That mad captain, could it be anyone in particular?
“Well, I mean obviously it’s Trump but there’s plenty of them about. He’s not the only one.”
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Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45482360
Click here for a sound only interview with McCartney talking about his new song.
People like McCartney in my opinion epitomise the kind of out of touch “Champagne socialists” who look down on the deplorables, who don’t understand ordinary people’s reluctance to embrace hardship, expensive green energy and personal sacrifice, so he and his friends can fly about on private jets telling the world how wonderful they feel that we made the “right” choice.
McCartney is not in good voice [he never really has been] a couple of lucky songs and without Auto-Tune – well enough said!
Please don’t give any live concerts any more!
Scientific proven facts show that CO2 is neither Poison nor Pollutant, it is our staff of life. So called Climate Change is in the same league as Fool’s Gold, Tulip Trading, South Sea Bubble, Papal Indulgences and Renewables [without massive subsidies would die] Computer predictions should be scrapped.
Relax Paul and soak up the residuals…..
What is the point of insulting people with different views. Even if they insult you- it is so 7th grade. Sure the Beatles made vinyl records. The impact of higher levels- more rapidly increasing than ever recorded- CO2 in the atmosphere was not well known. And when the qualification to comment on a subject is perfection, we will have only silence. Nobody is perfect- myself included of course.
The graphs about the Dalton minimum did not even have units on them. The quote from wiki was completely out of context, or edited. Nobody says CO2 is poison. It is a necessary component of our atmosphere, but the change in levels, and their consequences cannot be seriously denied. Debated ? Discussed? OK- but only if we use facts, and not silly comparisons like tulip trading.
Fools gold is real. Oil has had massive subsidies for most of its history- and they are increasing.
Sometimes we are wrong. Computer predictions are improving, but still have errors- duh. But scrapping them is like sticking our heads in the sand.
I do not believe we will be wrong about the effects of clearly human caused CO2 increases– they are and will continue warming the planet. A discussion of facts could help with understanding. All the silly insults feel like an emperors new clothes tale. Keep saying it, and it will be true?
Open your eyes folks. We likely can’t change the trajectory we are on, and have contributed to, but pretending it is not happening, and insulting those are presenting information we don’t like is a form- if not the definition – of denial.
“People like McCartney in my opinion epitomise the kind of out of touch “Champagne socialists” ”
in words only but indeed greedy capitalists or how do think McCartney got rich.
When you live in a sumptuous, $multimillion gilded cage surrounded by acolytes and fellow-travelers it’s easy to virtue-signal. It’s easy to pontificate and moralise about complex, difficult social and political issues and to assume that your unimaginable wealth somehow brings with it authority.
Macca isn’t the worst offender; god knows, Hollywood is bursting at the seams with intellectually-challenged, historically ignorant malingerers and fools. Super-rich ‘celebs’ jet around the world, regardless, leaving in their wake a carbon footprint large enough to fuel a moderately sized town. They don’t understand irony or hypocrisy. It’s not in their vocabulary.
You’d think that people would have had enough of silly pop stars.