I thought I had seen denial at its worst, when in the sixties,
despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Big Tobacco paraded expert after
expert stating unequivocally that tobacco was not only not harmful, but was
good for you. Now we have the same mob running interference for Big Energy, as
we ramp up coal exports and load it in one of the most sensitive environments
on the planet, the Great Barrie Reef!
This Sunday I will march for the first time in protest
against our new government’s determination to defund and unwind most of the
hard won carbon abatement programs created over the last six years.
I guess it had to happen, but when Abbott started calling
Shorten “Electricity Bill”, implying falsely that Labor’s Carbon Pricing caused
the huge rises in electricity prices suffered over the last few years, when it
was mostly pushed up by infrastructure expenditure, the nick names started.
Christine Milne of the Greens was next in with “Typhoon Tony”,
after it was suggested that extreme weather events would become more frequent
and even more extreme as climate warmed, and repeal of the Carbon Price would exacerbate
the problem. Now I would like to add two more.
“Hurricane Hunt”, our Minister for climate change denial and
“Bushfire Bishop”, our deputy PM, mistress of the Death Stare and fellow climate
change denier.
As they said, when it was suggested by the Greens that climate
change would cause more extreme bush fires, like those that raged through the
Blue Mountains last month and that Typhoon Haiyan was a portent of worse to
come, they were chided for ‘politicising misery’. But as one commentator asked;
“If this is not the time to look at the implications of climate change, when should
we?”
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