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Does Building Design's content reflect editor's position on Climate?
Amanda Baillieu: "Basically believing in man made climate change is a bit like hoping that fairies live at the bottom of the garden". The editor's Twitter stream also suggests that she denies human impacts on the Earth's temperature.
- Javier Arbona on Nov 04, 09 | 12:35 pm

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- Geoff Manaugh, Nov 04, 09 | 1:25 pm
interesting article, geoff... Interesting theory and I hadn't thought of it. I do think, though, that a major part of climate denialism is the product of money that funds anti-science thinktanks, that then spin all kinds of propaganda, and so on.
- Javier Arbona, Nov 04, 09 | 3:27 pm
Now I have a reason to NOT read BD, not that I ever have opened up an issue.
- treekiller, Nov 04, 09 | 3:41 pm
Ahhh - the "Death Denial" syndrome would explain why a huge percentage of architects don't think climate change is a man-made problem, as reported in this month's Architect magazine.

Honestly, this fear of death that drives a need to build a "permanent" monument to one's self is one of the least attractive aspects of architects' presonalities. Ugh. All is dust, guys. And that's a good thing.
- liberty bell, Nov 04, 09 | 7:46 pm
thx liberty bell. I had not seen that!!! Alarming.
- Javier Arbona, Nov 04, 09 | 8:25 pm
C'mon, are we going to be the thought police now? Are we going to insist on ideological purity? She can say whatever she wants on her twitter stream, I say all kinds of absurd shit on mine, that's what it's for.
- sevensixfive, Nov 06, 09 | 9:36 am
@sevensixfive Me too, but see her new editorial. f that's not a clear position that she has now articulated, then I don't know what is.
- Javier Arbona, Nov 06, 09 | 9:38 am
Alright, yeah, I agree. If it's in an editorial, she's fair game. It's on.

It'll be a good thing, in the end, to have someone articulate a viewpoint like hers. The worst it can do is bring out the many people who will tell her all the ways in which she is wrong.
- sevensixfive, Nov 06, 09 | 11:29 am
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