Swindlers: How would Christ respond?

There is a lot of ad hominum arguing (playing the man, not the issue) surrounding The Great TV Sceptics Doco Swindle. Witness the Australian's single-minded approach. Ad Hominum is good so long as it is done with compassion. It helps to know who's talking in these debates. There was no mention of the connections the three sceptics on the panel have with right wing front organisations funded by fossil fuel companies and links to right wing 'think tanks' and 'astroturfing' bodies in the USA. Guy Pearce's book High & Dry traces the links between the Institute of Public Affairs, the Australian Environment Foundation and the Lavoisier Group and the fringe organisations George Bush is enthralled by in the US. So does Clive Hamilton's book Scorcher. (Google 'sceptics' and 'climate change deniers' for more). You have a pattern emerging among the 'experts' they employ. Most - according to the documentary The Denial Machine - have received funding from fossil fuel companies or their agents. Most haven't published in a peer-reviewed journal for years. Most have qualifications periferal to the issue. Most appeared as experts in the passive smoking issue, ozone hole issue, asbestos issue, etc. on behalf of the sceptics (and their backers, the big polluters). Mining magnate Hugh Morgan's hatred for the environment and aborigines has driven him to grandfather all these Australian organisations. (All that resentment can cause cancer. Look at what happened to Stan.) Another great source of negative energy resides at the top of Exxon-Mobil. Read the literature. Britain's Royal Academy of Science had to make a special request to Exxon to cease funding front organisations to spread confusion about climate change and thus cause delays in fighting the problem. That's what "Swindle" is about. And what Bob Castle and Ray Evans and Michael Duffy are about. Delay. But why? I believe they are honest men and are not corrupted by financial support from mining companies. But are they trying to save the fossil fuel companies from having to pay the full cost of their products: including the cost of disposal of wastes into the atmosphere? Yes and No. These people describe themselves as 'neoliberals' - lovers of freedom, 80's style. The freedom to pollute. The freedom to lay waste to community assets. They don't believe in community or society. Margaret Thatcher said: "There is no such thing as society. There is only an economy." The perfect mechanism for regulating human life is the market. Markets always make the right decisions. Markets cannot fail. To admit man-made CO2 is behind climate change would be to admit that markets can fail. It would undermine their entire neoliberal ideology to which they cling. They are not merely defending unrestrained capitalism and 'greed is good' morality. They are defending the very essence of their inner beings. For if the Bible is wrong - and God didn't mean 'do whatever you like to her' when he commanded man to 'subdue the Earth' - what else have they got wrong? BTW The sceptics need to watch out for looking like victims of Grumpy Old Man Syndrome? There were 3 GOM on the panel last night. (The former head of BT now with WWF is the flipside of GOM. He's a HOD. (Hip Old Dude). Christ would respond to the afflicted with His great love. Love is all we have left to solve this dilemma.