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12 Aug 05:55am

Filed under: Climate Change, Cprs, Ets, Greenhouse Effect

It gives me no pleasure to say this. But cataclysmic climate change is going to happen, with all its promised attendant devastation, and neither you nor I nor anyone in power is going to do anything about it.

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People don’t fix predictions. People fix problems. And until the western world truly feels the burn, then climate change is a prediction, not a problem.

Lethal floods in Pakistan haven’t swayed us. Drought in Africa hasn’t swayed us. The worst heatwave in Russia in a thousand years hasn’t swayed us. Even our own murderous Black Saturday bushfires in 2009 haven’t knocked any sense into our heads. Perhaps if Sydney’s waterfront mansions plunge into the harbour, taking property prices with them, we might demand action.

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Nick says:

06:47am | 20/08/10

If we’re doomed and there is nothing that “we” can do about it, then why waste one second, one cent, or one scrap of newsprint trying to do anything about it? Let’s move on to more useful and practical pursuits, like finding more oil, building more nuclear power plants, and… Read more »
Richard says:

12:59pm | 17/08/10

You have to pity your average Australian voter. They live in world where oil levels are falling, while sea levels are rising, the population gets older, while criminals get younger, and where the the ozone gets thinner, while pollution gets thicker and where the misogynistic likes of Tony Abbott are… Read more »

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