'Inconvenient truths' swamping Tony Abbott

by Robert McLean

       Most of us are susceptible to endorsing something we instinctively approve.

 Kenneth Davidson.

Conscious of that, each of us needs to approach what we read with caution as without care we can be swept along by a current of thinking. Global warming is typical of that, but when examined in the hard, cold and sceptical light of true analytically consideration, it can be shown to be correct.

The skeptics/doubters want us to believe otherwise and of course they would for when you “follow the money” they are funded almost entirely by the fossils fuels industry, the villains in the climate change conversation.

For most of the past decade, global warming has been fundamental to my intellectual diet and years ago it became obvious to me that it was human-induced and rather waste further time debating its existence and cause, we needed to be preparing our communities, and more widely society generally, to survive in a decidedly different future.

Still, there lingered this nagging concern that I was being swept up by this scientific enthusiasm that appeared remote from society generally and most in my community.

Events of the past five years have removed any doubt – civilization is in desperate trouble and the severity of what is ahead appears to be beyond the intellectual capacity of our leaders, be they local, state or federal, for the first priority of all appears to be to protect the economy, which, in reality, has little to do with the ongoing welfare of civilization.

The economy, a human construct, as we understand it today is about making certain our wants are answered, when in reality it should be about answering our needs.

Humans are aspirational, and that is fine, but those aspirations have become distorted and are about enriching a few, rather than answering the needs of billions.

Apologies for the rant, I simply set out to point toward a comment piece in today’s Age by Kenneth Davidson headed: “Tony Abbott’s rising tide of inconvenient truths”.

However, despite Tony Abbott and his cohorts dragging us back into the 1970s we should not be too disheartened for many things are happening in our communities through which people are attempting to steer our society toward some workable solution.

I am decidedly pessimistic that the Australian Government will do much to counteract what is happening to our climate, but I am optimistic the Australian people will work their way to answering this profound difficulty.