If we care it seems we are 'medieval' and 'ignorant'

Adam Brandt.

George Brandis has labelled those of us who care deeply about humanity’s survival as “medieval’ and “ignorant”.

Beneath the Wisteria supporters could rightly feel insulted and rather indignant about the Attorney General’s comments, but should avoid that sort of reaction for the matter is simply far too important to allow personal sentiments to interfere with a belief in what is decent.

Nor should we allow the attorney general’s rhetoric to distract us from what we feel is the right and proper way to respond to climate change and its attendant rigours.

Mr Brandis was reported in today’s Age in a story by Lisa Cox in a story headed: “Debate on climate ‘medieval’”.

However, we should draw comfort from the observation made by Greens MP, Adam Brandt when interviewed this morning on Radio National who said, “This Abbott Government is using every trick in the book to hide the fact that they're not taking the action that the science calls for on climate change. And to suggest that somehow people in this country are being restricted from airing albeit very wrong views on climate change is completely misleading.