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On the climate issue my understanding is very much that it is a real issue but as a subject for debate it has a lot of difficulties.


First is that it takes on a very religious like nature and is framed around “belief” in the issue rather than any actual science. Almost always the question arises “do you believe in climate change?”.


People tend to have very strong views and critically, both sides argue that failing to adhere to their view will be met with drastic consequences.


Those attributes all have a lot in common with religion.


Israel Falou tells us that gays, drunks and indeed most of us are destined for some place called Hell. That’s standard religious stuff that’s been around forever.


Climate change advocates tell us that the coal industry is sending us all to hell and those on the other side warn of an economic hell.


If Hell was listed on the ASX then I’d be invested for sure. It’s a can’t lose business when there’s no competitor and it seems pretty much everyone’s going to be a customer.


Personally I’m an atheist and take a purely scientific approach to things like climate change with no “belief” involved. Hell is, in my view, a purely fictional place considerably less real than Mickey Mouse (since Disneyland most certainly does exist and Walt Disney was most certainly a real person) but there’s the trouble in all of this.


You might be able to get a classical music fan to accept heavy metal or electronic dance music as legitimate albeit not to their personal liking but there’s no chance of doing that when it comes to religion.


Real military wars get fought over this stuff so not a lot of chance we’re going to resolve it here.


May as well focus on making money out of it all then. It’s a stock market forum after all.


As for how to make that money, well it seems that there’s no Hell listed on the ASX so may have to look a bit deeper.


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