No mandate to dictate to others...

"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing." Richard Feynman

Worth a thought

 

"Asking for feedback creates a critic. Asking for advice creates a partner." from Farnham Street.

Neither Guilt Nor Apocalypse are Sound Policy Instruments

 

Bjorn Lomborg reports in Business Day that the latest IPCC report – the “code red” document states that “frequency and intensity of cold extremes has decreased.” Just what we might expect.

The Lancet reports that half a million die  from heat every year. At the same time 4.5 million people die from cold. The last 10 years have seen, globally, an increase of 116,000 deaths from heat but a decrease of 283,000 deaths from cold. We have then seen 167,000 lives saved per year

This is neither apocalypse nor anything to be guilty about. Code red? Code for – look at both benefits and costs. You might be surprised.