New Zealand Journal of Forestry (2009) 54(3): 48
©New Zealand Institute of Forestry

Opinion
I can’t be bothered with Climate Change

John Purey-Cust <sup>1

1</sup> John is a fellow of the NZIF, a full member from Southland, and winner of the 2009 South Island Husqvarna Farm Forester of the Year Award.

Thinking about climate change I am reminded of that old theological debate about how many angels might dance on the head of a pin. No one has yet found evidence of it’s source but the expression still remains to describe the introverted arguments of savants as they go from the sublime to the ridiculous, moving ever further from the point of the argument as they go. So it seems to be with climate change. Contrarians (apart from some of the religious kind) appear to accept climate change per se - the climate changes from season to season, from year to year, in cycles short and long, and from time to time human populations who have strayed too far over the edge of change - for example islands too close to sea level - get nipped off. All that they seem to decry is the suggestion that change might be driven by human activity.
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