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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/56055588-ea07-4689-b31b-abca1ba6da2b/E0D2E4D3-2C4E-49CF-8D67-2D2615C091A9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/climate_change/the_new_determinism" href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/climate_change/the_new_determinism" style="font-size: 11px;">www.opendemocracy.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/climate_change/the_new_determinism"><P> We now have climate as conflict, and weather as weapons. But such climatic determinism has had a long, and often discreditable, history. Climate has been viewed as the determinant of racial character, of intellectual vigour, of moral virtue and of civilisational superiority. The allure of a naïve climatic determinism has seduced the Greeks (<A href="http://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodotus/herodotus01.htm">Herodotus</A>), thinkers of the European Enlightenment (Montesquieu, David Hume, <A href="http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=3000">Buffon</A>) and American geographers of the early 20th century (Ellsworth Huntington, <A href="http://www.csiss.org/classics/content/24">Ellen Churchill Semple</A>). And it is now seducing those hard-nosed and most unsentimental of people ... the military and their advisors. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/climate_change/the_new_determinism">linguistic repertoire has been mobilised with which to describe climate change - as "more serious even that the threat of terrorism" (<A href="http://www.dti.gov.uk/science/science-tech-and-dti/csa/page14778.html">David King</A>), as "a weapon of mass destruction" (<A href="http://www.japanprize.jp/prize/2006/e1_houghton.htm">John Houghton</A>), as demanding a "war on global warming to replace that on terror" (<A href="http://www.hawking.org.uk/home/hindex.html">Stephen Hawking<IMG class="linkscent-icon" src="http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/climate_change/chrome://interclue/content/cluecore/skins/default/linkscentDefault.png" clueid="favIcon" /><IMG class="linkscent-icon" src="http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/climate_change/chrome://interclue/content/cluecore/skins/default/pixel.gif" clueid="clueIcon" /></A>), and as "the ticking clock" to replace the spectre of nuclear holocaust</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E0D2E4D3-2C4E-49CF-8D67-2D2615C091A9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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