It is a flat out rejection of sound science. I don't care what continent one speaks of the conservative parties are corrupt beyond hope. The climate issues are about the generations both current and future. There is no more noble a reason to reject ancient energy sources and embrace alternative energies. It is ridiculous what is occurring globally.
The most laudably corrupt conservative party is that belonging to Donald Trump. They don't care about effective policies that insure the future generations of Earth; everything is here and now, lacking civility and placing people in danger of real effects of a violent troposphere. If the rest of the world is taking example of that poor sap, then they sincerely need to learn to lead and not simply follow a piss poor example of greed of which the USA President claims. My god, he has turned the USA Treasury on it's head and the USA is accumulating trillions of dollars of debt per year now. That is not greed, that is abandonment of everything American.
The most laudably corrupt conservative party is that belonging to Donald Trump. They don't care about effective policies that insure the future generations of Earth; everything is here and now, lacking civility and placing people in danger of real effects of a violent troposphere. If the rest of the world is taking example of that poor sap, then they sincerely need to learn to lead and not simply follow a piss poor example of greed of which the USA President claims. My god, he has turned the USA Treasury on it's head and the USA is accumulating trillions of dollars of debt per year now. That is not greed, that is abandonment of everything American.
20 August 2018
By David Crowe
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (click here) has staged another dramatic retreat on energy policy in the face of a dire threat to his leadership, removing climate change targets from the National Energy Guarantee in his second policy reset in four days.
The revised scheme will go ahead without federal legislation to stipulate a 26 per cent cut to greenhouse gas emissions under changes aimed at averting a challenge from Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton.
Asked on Monday morning whether his leadership was under threat, the Prime Minister declared: "I enjoy the confidence of the cabinet and my party room."
Mr Turnbull also said he had the support of Mr Dutton following reports that the Home Affairs Minister was being asked to challenge for the leadership and was inclined to run, with his supporters claiming he had majority support in the Liberal party room.
"Peter Dutton was at our leadership team meeting this morning. He is a member of our team, he has given me his absolute support," Mr Turnbull said....
When does the will of the people finally take hold? When it is too late and they have lost their promises of changing the future and securing the land, air and sea for their children? Is that when the people finally matter, when all is lost?
20 August 2018
By Tony Wright
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton during question time on Monday.
It is not the public humiliation so much, (click here) even if Malcolm Turnbull will have those words of his from 2009 - “I will not lead a party that is not as committed to effective action on climate change as I am” – forever repeated to him.
It is not even that he has changed policy twice in a few days on one of the two or three central tenets of his period as prime minister.
Senior politicians, who talk all the time, inevitably say things that come back to haunt them. And leaders change policy for all sorts of reasons....
I reject the nuclear weapons crisis in whatever form the next brinkmanship takes as the priority of national security; the climate has taken precedent. The problem is that Earth doesn't have fist fulls of cash and lobbyists to pander to cronies of political parties.
Science and scientists are supposed to matter and why? Because the future, at one time in the history of civilization, children and their future mattered. The conservative parties around the globe have removed the promises of the future and replaced it with greed and here and now. That is hardly moral and in all places, Australia, there are still politicians willing to sell their votes and remove the power the people expected when the placed their ballots. Be very clear, the votes placed in Australia that elected the moral demand of climate science over the cronyism of ancient energy sources have lost their allegiance of the people they elected. When is this abandonment of civilization going to stop? If the answer is never, then Australia has lost it's future as has most of the world.
When does the will of the people finally take hold? When it is too late and they have lost their promises of changing the future and securing the land, air and sea for their children? Is that when the people finally matter, when all is lost?
By Tony Wright
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton during question time on Monday.
It is not the public humiliation so much, (click here) even if Malcolm Turnbull will have those words of his from 2009 - “I will not lead a party that is not as committed to effective action on climate change as I am” – forever repeated to him.
It is not even that he has changed policy twice in a few days on one of the two or three central tenets of his period as prime minister.
Senior politicians, who talk all the time, inevitably say things that come back to haunt them. And leaders change policy for all sorts of reasons....
I reject the nuclear weapons crisis in whatever form the next brinkmanship takes as the priority of national security; the climate has taken precedent. The problem is that Earth doesn't have fist fulls of cash and lobbyists to pander to cronies of political parties.
Science and scientists are supposed to matter and why? Because the future, at one time in the history of civilization, children and their future mattered. The conservative parties around the globe have removed the promises of the future and replaced it with greed and here and now. That is hardly moral and in all places, Australia, there are still politicians willing to sell their votes and remove the power the people expected when the placed their ballots. Be very clear, the votes placed in Australia that elected the moral demand of climate science over the cronyism of ancient energy sources have lost their allegiance of the people they elected. When is this abandonment of civilization going to stop? If the answer is never, then Australia has lost it's future as has most of the world.
