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Citizen’s Assembly on Climate Change could have a positive result

Just for once, can we drop all the negativity, and work with what opportunities do exist? The fossil fuel lobbies and mass media did a great job in rubbishing the science on Climate Change. Yet it’s becoming ever clearer that global warming is real, and Australia is already feeling the results.

In the cynical quagmire of Australian politics, Labor could not get any genuine action on carbon emissions through Parliament, anyway. OK – they let us down.  That’s what politicians do, when they fear that their jobs are on the line.

The combination of the Citizens Assembly  and of a scientists conference provides the opportunity to turn public opinion around, to counter the greedy spin of the fossil fuel industries.  This could produce a political climate in which the government COULD get some effective Climate legislation through.

July 26, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews, climate change - global warming, energy, solar, wind | Australia, climate change, climate change - global warming, energy, solar, wind