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Le Shrub's avatar

Dear Richard, thank you for your powerful words. You can’t imagine how much this means to me, coming from a man of your experience.

All the best!

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Richiv's avatar

I listened to a podcast with you a while ago and have followed since then. You are a voice of sanity in an increasingly insane world. What Claudine Gay said was reprehensible. And it was especially reprehensible, as you indicate, when coming from an "expert" in race and society. It is especially disappointing to me that she is black and that her views are so pervasive amongst her academic cohort. I was lucky enough to march over the Edmund Pettis bridge with Martin Luther King and to have lived in and worked for an interracial South Africa during the time of apartheid. Both King and Mandela would be appalled by Ms. Gay's behaviour and her views. (As an aside, King once said “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism,” ). Finally, I personally have targeted my energy investments into non-major oils, coal, and uranium because I cannot see how renewables will ever enable poorer countries to increase their living standards enough to satisfy the justifiable aspirations of their growing populations.

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