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| Australia's pre-eminent "responsible man", Prime Minister, Tony Abbott. |
“Nothing wrong with that” many would argue in reply,
omitting to acknowledge that such comforts bring with them a legacy that
disables a person’s ability to understand the complications and difficulties
that will arise from living with a climate never before experienced by
humanity.
It seems that Australians are unable to grasp the reality
that our future is going to be decidedly different and that if we don’t
willingly change our behaviour, nature will step in and force those changes
upon us.
The present way of life for most Australians is so fundamentally
different from what will be common in just decades, that few of us can
comprehend what we must do to create and build a truly resilient community, or
even just neighbourhoods that will be adequately equipped to rise to the unfolding
challenges of food, water, top soil and energy shortages.
The suits and ties of the “responsible men” are a symbol of
an era wasted and it is time we moved on, scrapped those aged perversities that
have with them a strange locked-in adherence to business as usual philosophies;
ideas that are foreign to what humanity needs today.
Adaptation to tomorrow is not about the simplistic recycling
of a few newspapers, changing a few light globes or just walking occasionally
as opposed to driving, rather it is about understanding that the comfort we
presently consider normal is the engine driving global warming and we need a
wholesale change of our way of life.
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