Oliver Yates, ex CEO of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, is an active member of the Liberal Party. He has been scathing of LNP policy regarding climate change. In this article he again flays them and particularly the Queen of the Dark Arts, Peta Credlin, for standing in the way on progress. He is genuinely liberal and he can turn a phrase – have a look.
If we learn to love mudflats it won’t be just the Eastern curlew, that miracle of nature, that benefits. It will be all of the marine life that is sustained by mudflats, that start off the food chains that give us much of the seafood that we eat.
Fish kills in the Murray Darling are yet another consequence of very poor landscape management. Why do we have such thirsty crops as cotton? How can we have a political system so beholden to large donors who get the best policy money can buy? What will the S A Royal Commission into the Murray Darling find?
It’s not just iconic NSW beaches being loved to death. With Melbourne’s current population at nearly 5 mill, we are already often at ‘peak’ beach. How can we manage numbers (including saying beach full, turn back) when we’re at 8 mill? Redefine Australian birthright?
It seems that with the Opal building planning failure, it’s not the colour of the tape that is the issue (red tape, green tape, whatever), it’s that it exists that is the important issue. Where is an example of self-regulation that works? Anyone?
The future we have in store, Louise Freckelton, is one we’re not going like. I think your response: “I’m angry because being anything other than angry feels like being complicit”, is entirely appropriate. You could start in the bush be turning your back on the deniers in the LNP, you leave out the NP bit and in the cities we’ll do the same with the L bit.
When Real Estate reporter sue Williams is telling us to look for community oriented solutions rather than pumping up the aircon for dealing with extreme temperatures, hot (?) on the heels of Economics Reporter Ross Gittins calling for more urban greenery, you know the awakening is well underway. But … broader, deeper, faster!
Elizabeth Warren announcing her probable candidacy for President in 2020 is a good sign but she could do with a stronger focus onclimate response. She’s good on so many other policy areas. The Democrats control of the House has started and we would like to see a 2019 climate response start now too.
There is no smugness in an ‘I told you so’ with reference to the deadly weather and its human costs. Deniers who prevent action are culpable!