Comments Ian Milliss has made
there is intent to sabotage
Your analysis is correct but only up to the point where we all become aware of what is happening. Continuing, now that we know and understand the problem, does involve intent, at least at the level of politicians, lobbyists and corporate executives who from this point on should be held legally accountable for their actions in the same way as the designers and administarators of death camps were. Instant change is obviously impossible but those who actively obstruct and sabotage efforts to deal with climate change should be warned that they are in the same moral and legal position as the administrators of the holocaust.
Ian Milliss
On Is the analogy between climate change and Hitler's atrocities appropriate? posted 2 years ago 49 Responsesil faut cultiver notre jardin
That is a very interesting analysis given that I am sick of hearing people say that stating the obvious is "scare mongering" that turns people off. It's time to question what is wrong with people who will not face reality.
Voltaire actually had the answer as well, in the last line of the book Cela est bien dit, répondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin (loosely translates as thats all well and good but we should first look after our own garden) meaning that we should get on with it and at least deal with the things that are within our immediate control.
caniscandida, burned wildlife makes for tragic TV imagery but it has no effect on Australian opinion whatsoever, the Australian ecology was created by aboriginal fire farming, fires are an annual feature of Australian life. Unfortunately in recent years the fires have become much worse but mostly because of misguided attempts to stop fires entirely when a regime of regular cool burns more effectively reduces the incidence of major fires. Koalas have definitely suffered but kangaroos and wallabies continue to exist in almost plague proportions in some areas. (Don't get me wrong, I love them but here they are like squirrels in the US, not all that noteworthy, they hop in and graze my lawn every night)
The biggest opinion changer is the drought that has gone on for so long that people are realising it's not a drought, it's the climate now, and in the future the occasional wet year will be the exception rather than the occasional drought year. Most eastern state cities now live with serious restrictions on water use, so even the most urban are effected by it.
Ian Milliss
On Australian prime minister goes down to decisive defeat posted 2 years ago 14 ResponsesAt least now there is hope
Unfortunately the Australian Labor Party is only to the left of the two extreme right wing parties of the US. Anywhere else in the world it would be described as centre right.
You could say that the Australian Greens now have the policies of the old (centre left) Labor Party, the Labor Party now has the policies of the old (centre right) Liberal Party and Howard's Liberal Party has the policies of the old corporatist Italian Fascist Party.
Although it's great Howard is gone, the clean coal delusion still grips the Labor Party.
The best thing about the election is that in most of Labor's landslide seats their vote was little better than the Liberals vote. It was the additional 5-20% of Green preferences that delivered Labor the seats leaving them very much in debt to the Greens. Whether they'll repay that debt is a moot point.
Ian Milliss
On Australian prime minister goes down to decisive defeat posted 2 years ago 14 ResponsesAustralia's shame
Sorry, hate to say it, but Australia is doing close to nothing about global warming and has a national government that is actively subverting both local and international initiatives. At best there is now increased spending on public relations initiatives designed to give the appearance of action while spreading disinformation. It must be said that current right wing political manipulations verge on criminal breach of the duty of care (given that there can no longer be the slightest doubt about the consequences we now face) and I think in years to come many Australian politicians and business people may face well deserved civil and criminal court action over their current duplicitous behaviour.
Ian Milliss
On Will it be adaptation, mitigation ... or neither? posted 2 years, 6 months ago 12 Responses