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I meant, CO2, not COs... but you get the idea. ;-)

Good article marred by global warming nonsense...

I read this article with enthusiasm, though I already knew the story of Clarkson. Well-written and passionate, it ably chronicles this man's crusade and unrelenting desire to end the slave trade. As I read I was struck by two things, one was how today there is often the argument circulating by the atheist crowd which asks what good religion has done for the world. Although knowledgeable historians scoff at such infantile questions, many others are challenged by these tactics. Hopefully some of these people will happen upon this article (and others like it) and realize that it was a clergyman and a small, dedicated religious sect that formed the foundation of a movement that toppled the seemingly unstoppable slave trade. Secondly, I was saddened and dismayed that Hochschild chose to link the abolitionist cause with the inanity of global warming rhetoric. Happily, as more and more research is brought to light, the party line of global warming alarmists is being exposed as the nonsense it is.

As a life-long eco-activist, I am sick and tired of global warming advocates hijacking the debate and sabotaging efforts to curtail pollution, by focusing the attention on greenhouse gases and the non-existent causation of COs driving temperature. Every day increasing numbers of citizens — people that would (and are) embracing efforts to end pollution — are becoming educated about the lies of global warming scaremongers, which cripples decades of work done to educate the public concerning pollution. This only serves to turn-off a public previously turned on to think globally and act locally. The more the alarmists push and prod, and the research rolls in to contradict their lies, the more the public turns it's back on recycling, clean-up efforts and the like.

Adam, learn the difference between apples and oranges. Slavery is an apples issue, global warming is an oranges one (and a rotten orange at that). In the future, in your closing paragraph, exercise some wisdom and refrain from tainting an otherwise excellent argument by shoehorning in cliched, faddish issues of the day - it only serves to cheapen your writing.

I often wondered how my mother had such wonderful Jamican teachers in Austin County Texas about 1912-15
I now know that they had gained their freedom in 1838 and migrated to Texas where land was cheap and publicc schools wre reasonably well supported.

That was the most interesting and moving hour I've ever spent reading a story on the internet! I am so glad to have found it and felt so proud about how Britons stopped buying sugar and the northern knive makers stopped producing their wares in protest. I would love to share this with my children but need an article that's more on their level. Is there any such literature out there? Mr. Clarkson was truly a hero to all mankind! Why have I never heard of him before? Anyway, thanks again and I will be getting the book. :)

Thank you, very enlightening as I was trying to find out sore specifically about the sugar boycott
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Mother Jones - Comments for "Against All Odds"

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Good article marred by global warming nonsense...