American Thinker: Obama's Nobel seen from Sweden

About Obama the Savior, I was simply embarrassed at being a Scandinavian when those naïve enthusiasts in the Norwegian Parliamentary Nobel Committee decided to celebrate their own political biases by awarding poor Obama their Prize.

I interpret it first of all as an anti-Bush award, purely political, and as betraying such a hopeless lack of perspective and lack of professionalism that thinking about it makes me blush! The transparency of the political motivation alone should have stayed their hand -- but it has not done so on previous disastrous occasions. After all, Yasser Arafat was one of the architects of modern terrorism. That was not what Alfred Nobel had in mind for his Peace Prize.

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At the other end of the spectrum of possible action are those who think the only solution is to work for the collapse of industrial civilization. Climate change is but one of the dangerous symptoms caused by humanity as a cancer that is killing the planet. But how do you work for the collapse of industrial civilization? And what about the implicit die-off of most of humanity? And how do you accomplish this cancer operation immediately so that continuing emissions don’t take us past those tipping points—there are carbon cycle time lags—or only manage to eradicate the cancer in part of the globe so that collapse is but a descent into war and chaos with climate change still a danger?
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Bill Henderson is an activist who lives in Gibsons.

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