No mention of environment or climate yet catastrophe beckons due to extreme weather events and ecosystem loss - like forests dying due to drought/heat/irresponsible management practices, inland rivers becoming polluted/unreliable. Australians do not understand the drastic implications of climate change nor that are utterly unprepared. The ALP dare not release the report into the national security implications and its adaptation planning is utterly irresponsible. No mention of the media and its influence in keeping us moronic. Those who understand are unlikely to vote ALP and at that point, given their donor-driven agenda on housing, welfare and tax reform, there's not eno' difference between the major parties to be sure of an ALP win. I suspect that if the LNP had a more credible front bench, the ALP'd be out after 1 term. Both sides support the US push for more war with all its waste of increasingly unaffordable resources including oil. I wonder if either side understands that oil has reached the point where it's beginning to take more energy to extract it than it provides for us to use. I vote for Utopia.
No mention of environment or climate yet catastrophe beckons due to extreme weather events and ecosystem loss - like forests dying due to drought/heat/irresponsible management practices, inland rivers becoming polluted/unreliable. Australians do not understand the drastic implications of climate change nor that are utterly unprepared. The ALP dare not release the report into the national security implications and its adaptation planning is utterly irresponsible. No mention of the media and its influence in keeping us moronic. Those who understand are unlikely to vote ALP and at that point, given their donor-driven agenda on housing, welfare and tax reform, there's not eno' difference between the major parties to be sure of an ALP win. I suspect that if the LNP had a more credible front bench, the ALP'd be out after 1 term. Both sides support the US push for more war with all its waste of increasingly unaffordable resources including oil. I wonder if either side understands that oil has reached the point where it's beginning to take more energy to extract it than it provides for us to use. I vote for Utopia.
Thanks for your thoughtful comments. You might like our new book ‘fixing Australian politics’ which covers at least some of your claims.
As for the environment it is of course a major issue. If we don’t mention it that doesn’t imply we’re not aware. It’s like an all encompassing theme.
And the dying resource of oil. I too wish we could let go of it. At least before it’s too late. DL.