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@RossMcKitrick on Why Climate Change Alarmists Ignore Facts, Logic, Data
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Marianne Bertrand on the gender earnings gap puzzle
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Maori, past and present, on the indigenous language wage premium
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@AlGore
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Sydney’s hottest days
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Melbourne’s hottest days
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Why we must ban Christmas
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Originally published on December 24, 2012 and part of the updating of my old blog-site. It is interesting to see how, seven years on, many of my claims to show how ridiculous the anti-Christmas lot were, now seem to be borderline politically incorrect. How fast the narrative can shift!
Christmas means carnage – this is the great insight of Ferdinand the Duck in the 1995 movie, Babe.
Christmas is a time of consumption, and for many of us in the West, over-consumption. That may mean too much to eat and drink (including foie gras and caviar), too many gifts we don’t need or want (decorated in senseless wrapping paper to hide their significant resource depletion) and long trips to spend a day with people we might rather not see during the other 364 days in the year. We chop down trees to put in our homes, lighting them up…
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