Antinuclear

Australia – nuclear news for the past week

Perhaps the antinuclear website should change to “climate news”. I think about this often, because it is surely apparent to Australians that the climate is changing, and extreme events are happening more frequently here, and overseas – as well as the ‘creeping events’ of glacial and polar ice receding, sea level rise, and warming global average temperatures.  Then there are the news items and forecasts of climate experts, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).   It’s all happening, and faster than we had anticipated.

In the light of this, I, for one, am glad that the Australian Greens, now led by (shock horror – a woman!) Christine Milne, have severed their bond with the Australian Labor Party.   Of course, the fossil fuel puppets of Liberal and Labor are now even more scathing about the Greens. Labor is wobbling its way to the Right.   Paul Howes, ambitious pro nuclear union spokesman, (and wannabe Prime Minister one day) is vitriolic in his condemnation of Christine Milne.

Yet, in today’s climate of climate change, Australia’s little children may have no future. And the Greens are the only political party facing up to this reality.

While  the useless Australian media frolic about encouraging the pointless dance of Gillard versus Rudd, Abbott versus Turnbull –  the issues that matter to our children  are ignored.

Happenings

•   Maraling nuclear veterans making legal appeal for compensation, to the Australian Human Rights Commission
• Aboriginal community leaders refute Marcia Langton’s claim that mining is the solution for Aboriginal progress
• Very mysterious circumstances surround the death in Israel of Australian citizen Ben Zygier, but Israel maintains secrecy on this.
• Engineers Australia urge for greater cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, and for development of renewable energy
• Victorian research on 20,000 breast cancer patients shows that genetics is not a factor for 75% of them. (time we looked at environmental causes
• Julian Assange getting organised for Senate bid in 2013 elections
• In Australia, renewable energy is now cheaper than fossil fuel energy.

February 21, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews