'Wilful blindness' could demand running naked

A 93-year-old mother, whose family wisely fled the Nazi holocaust approaching Poland in 1937 maintains, "Nobody thought it would be that bad. Nobody wanted to believe it."

Cassandra from
Greek mythology.

This striking similarity between the evolution of the Nazi war/death machine and climate change is employed by Lyn Bender in her article “Climate change: our wilful blindness” published on On-Line Opinion on Monday, March 11.

Recently, those who gather Beneath the Wisteria in Shepparton’s Maude St, discussed the idea of civil disobedience, such as running naked down the street to create a disturbance, and Bender argues for civil disobedience in protest about the use of coal and fossil fuels.

She says: “Cassandra in ancient Greek mythology was given the gift of true prophecy, but the curse of not being believed. Many Cassandras are warning us that it is time for civil disobedience and opposition to coal and fossil fuels. But we are largely not heeding the warnings.”