I’m reaching that stage in the election campaign when the sensible thing for one to do is wallow in the satire. Here’s The Shovel asking ‘whom do I believe will win the election’. I could just crawl under the doona and rock back and forth muttering imprecations upon the bogan bloviator and his cabal of carpetbaggers, I suppose.https://www.theshovel.com.au/2022/05/09/greens-voter-exhausted-from-constantly-being-right%EF%BB%BF/
This guy Gittins always makes sense, but the quarter of the 50 top economists surveyed who didn’t nominate ‘climate and the environment’ as the most important issue for the election don’t.https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/in-this-election-one-critical-issue-stands-above-all-others-20220510-p5ajwd.html
While the re-election of the LNP would be horror beyond belief for our nation, a Labo(u)r Government will have to do much better on environmental policies. We don’t want State Labour to be a pointer for an incoming federal government. Peter Boyer sets out Labour collusion in penalties for protesting in Tasmania to the same level as those for aggravated assault and Queensland has recently criminalised actions of climate protesters. Remember, the price of a healthy environment is eternal vigilance.https://southwind.com.au/2022/05/10/lets-hear-it-for-independents-in-parliament/
The choices: hold one’s ears and wait for doomsday, party while the orchestra plays on the Titanic or take agency and do something about it, personally and politically.https://apnews.com/article/climate-scientists-optimism-http://photo.uss2.sbs/pRm9Rn9
All is not bleak about this election. But are we hanging on the result?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-08/women-teal-independents-federal-election-shift-power-politics/101042148
This pretty much sums up the Pentecostal P M’s election campaign. It pretty much sums up his last three years too.https://www.theshovel.com.au/2022/05/06/morrison-flawlessly-recites-coalitions-zero-point-climate-policy/
We have the lives we have in part to our export of coal. Many Indians have the lives they have because of our exports of coal. Many of us live in air-conditioned comfort, they live in hell on earth. What is our moral obligation to them when India is no longer habitable and how welcoming will we be?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-06/new-delhi-heatwave-a-glimpse-into-climate-change-future/101033250
Now here’s an idea, (now I don’t generally advocate violence but no sensible jury would convict me on this) sell time-slots for the horse-whipping and use the vast amounts of money raised towards adaptation. Horse-whips or baseball bats, the impact is the same.https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/federal/charity-boss-governments-should-be-horsewhipped-over-energy-policy-20220504-p5aigk.html
The Joyce is a joke on us all, and particularly on the farmers whose interests he has long betrayed. We still don’t know what is in the ransom note, oops sorry, Coalition Agreement, that gives him such clout in the government, and then just to rub our noses in it, we’ve never seen the $600,000+ worth of drought envoy texts he supposedly sent to his benefactor, oops sorry, our Prime Minister.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-04/barnaby-joyce-hells-gate-dam-funding-water-costs/101031114
Billionaires versus Politicians – what a time to be alive. And in this case, we want the billionaires to prevail.https://reneweconomy.com.au/god-doesnt-think-hes-angus-taylor-forrests-latest-slap-down/