On this day, 2nd July 2007, the highly-principled Guy Pearse (not the actor) released his brilliant book “High and Dry”.
“A Liberal Party member and former ministerial speechwriter issues a book today which depicts the Prime Minister with a stranglehold on environmental policy, deliberately surrounding himself with climate change sceptics.”
Rudra, N. 2007. Liberal attacks PM on climate. Canberra TImes, 2 July.
The problem was that High and Dry was soon “outdated,” when the Liberals were swept from office in late 2007. Pearse wrote a cracking Quarterly Essay about what Labor was up to, published in 2009.
HOWEVER the book is well-written, well-researched and gives you names and tactics of the “Greenhouse Mafia.”
The book still stands as an example of how you
- Do a PhD
- Turn a PhD into a book (a different beast)
- Make an impact, behave with integrity.
Why this matters.
Names are named, repertoires exposed. This is how you are supposed to do intellectual work.
What happened next?
Pearse kept writing about this for quite a while.
