Climate change conversation becomes irretrievably lost

The climate change conversation become irretrievably lost, or at least mired in an impenetrable swamp, when it became politicized and so swept into ideological debates.

Ian Berryman.

Writing in the Sunday Age in a story headed: “Back to the dark ages”, Ian Berryman lambasts the Tony Abbott led Coalition Government for its lack of vision and inability to accept and understand the fundamental science of climate change.

Berryman argues that the government’s present stance “will cripple economic growth”.

He said the government’s attacks on renewable energy had been “performed without mandate”.

The government it seems is welded to “Randian Philosophy”, when the mitigation needed to slow the accelerating impacts of climate change is something quite different.

No longer can the conversation be political or ideological, for this is a discussion about humanity’s survival, something that is well beyond those artificial constraints.