Tuesday, January 07, 2014
When You Elect a Lunatic Prime Minister
Stephen Harper's new BFF, Australian prime minister and fellow climate change denialist, Tony Abbott has wasted no time in dismantling his country's climate change apparatus and policies. He's done this even as his country's met office declared 2013 the hottest in its recorded history. It's amazing the stuff that comes out of Abbott's mouth, stuff like this:
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If and when they get together, it will be a Convention of the Clueless.
It's astonishing how many people they can recruit to support them, Owen.
The likes of harper and abbott have mastered the art of catering to the lowest factor of reason possible and a selfish and very crude worldview. Unfortunately, they're not going away anytime soon and any action of substance on climate change is sidelined at least for the next 25 years or so, perhaps never despite the mounting evidence and billions in damage that lies just around the corner.
I have wondered, BCW, how we will deal with these charlatans in the years ahead. We're all too familiar with the principle that, to date at least, it's impossible to blame any individual severe weather event on climate change but does that somehow extend to absolve our leadership of personal liability for ignoring it - or worse?
Political leadership has a duty, anchored in the public trust, to protect the public and not to subject them to harm. At law we're all deemed to intend the logical and foreseeable consequences of our actions. When someone, in whom, we have invested our collective authority to act on our behalf, chooses instead to either not act or to act against our interests to advance the interests of others, on what basis should they not be held to account?
At times I think we've empowered a class of predators who prey on society. I would like nothing better than to see them behind bars.
It's time to bring the Guillotines out of storage!
That might be a tad extreme, astone.
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