January 28, 2013 - 11:04PM
A three-year-old boy who was hit by a falling gum tree while watching floodwaters in Brisbane’s north on Monday has died in hospital.
The toddler’s death takes the number of people killed in Queensland’s unfolding flood disaster to four.
The young boy was standing with his father, brother and pregnant 34-year-old mother watching water rise from the Kedron Brook bikeway at Gordon Park when the large tree fell on them about 8.30am on Monday.
The toddler, who suffered severe head injuries, died on Monday night at the Royal Children's Hospital.*
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His mother remains in a critical condition in the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital with severe head injuries and several broken bones....
There were two young boys swept away during Hurricane Sandy. That means nothing? That makes no impression? The politics is more important. I would think the USA would be walking in the foot steps of those parents along with the parents of Sandy Hook, too. Or is it just too politically dangerous to actually invoke paradigm changes that save lives, albeit by gun or storm?
The USA has no moral compass that can bring it into alignment with other peoples and other governments. The only way the USA will change their greenhouse gas emissions is from sanctions placed on it. Even the media has no preference for moral content anymore.
The United States of America is responsible for huge emissions of greenhouse gases and the country needs to do better than it is doing today. Far better. The only way those changes will happen given the entrenched political discourse is for the international community to demand changes in exchange for economic relationships. Economic relationships are densely important to the Right Political Wing of the USA and they will bend like a willow to them.
There is no reason why China, India, Brazil and Russia should not demand environmental improvements in the USA in the area of greenhouse gases. In the past it has been the USA demanding environmental improvements. Well, it is time the shoe fits.
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A Swift Water Rescue officer saves a young boy in Rockhampton. Photo: Allan Reinikka
The United States of America is responsible for huge emissions of greenhouse gases and the country needs to do better than it is doing today. Far better. The only way those changes will happen given the entrenched political discourse is for the international community to demand changes in exchange for economic relationships. Economic relationships are densely important to the Right Political Wing of the USA and they will bend like a willow to them.
There is no reason why China, India, Brazil and Russia should not demand environmental improvements in the USA in the area of greenhouse gases. In the past it has been the USA demanding environmental improvements. Well, it is time the shoe fits.
