Antinuclear

Apocalypse now the time to accept climate change, SMH, 2 Jan 2020, What will it take for Scott Morrison to face up to reality? During his New Year’s speech when referring to the bushfires, he said “We have faced these disasters before and we have prevailed, we have overcome” (”Tragedy shows the need for climate leadership”, January 1).We have never faced any disaster as destructive as the current season of fires. The PM is incapable of expressing any comment that could to the slightest degree be considered as an admission that climate change is real. – Tony Lyons, Lithgow

The PM’s appeal to the Australian spirit in this bushfire crisis rings hollow because Australia feels insecure in the face of this unprecedented ”invasion” by the terrifying forces of climate change. For more than a decade the Coalition has never presented a policy designed to protect the Australian way of life from the anger of a wounded environment. We, the Australian people, elected this government knowing that climate change was decidedly not a priority. And so Wednesday’s front page of the Herald looks like it is describing an all-out invasion. Our national security is at risk. – Michael Kennedy, West Pymble

We have a PM who helped end the possibility of a decent carbon tax,  who brought a lump of coal into Parliament and smirked at its harmlessness, who constantly assures us that with our minimal efforts towards mitigating climate change are world leading, who refused at least twice to meet fire chiefs and other experts to discuss their concerns for the current summer, who thinks school children, whose future is the most effected, should not demonstrate and should not be alarmed by talk of climate change, who had to be dragged to offer compensation to the RFS volunteers. Is it then any wonder that we are enduring the summer that we are? I wonder how relaxed and comfortable children are with the headlines on New Year’s Day. – Brenton McGeachie, Queanbeyan West

Our PM urges us to celebrate and his Energy Minister says we should be proud of our efforts on climate change. I can’t celebrate our “amazing country” when so much of what makes it amazing is gone. Forests have been destroyed, koalas killed en masse and too many people have died. I feel nothing but shame for our paltry efforts on climate change, let alone the part we played in sabotaging the recent UN climate talks in Madrid. Our government is recklessly indifferent to the apocalypse engulfing eastern Australia and to the existential threat faced by its people. How out of touch is that? – Bronwyn Scott, Croydon  ……. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/apocalypse-now-the-time-to-accept-climate-change-20200101-p53o0v.html