I weep as I write for we are slipping beneath the waves



Like the Titanic, Australia
 is slipping beneath the waves.

I weep as I write.

The facts are known, the outcome of those facts is already evident and this week our Federal Government is acting to remove the last of the regulations that might, I reiterate “might” have helped Australia play its part in mitigating the worst of climate change.

With a denialist Prime Minister in charge of the orchestra, I think I can hear the soulful strains of “Nearer My God to Thee” as like the Titanic, Australia slips beneath the waves.

Although it was the waves that claimed the Titanic in 1912 and drowned more than 1500 people, it could be those same waves that “reach out” and rescue the people of southern Australia.

In a story headed: “Southern Australia faces water crisis by end of century due to climate change” it is suggested that some southern cities, Perth in particular, may have no option to employ desalination plants to provide potable water.

Beneath the Wisteria supporter, the University of Melbourne’s Professor David Karoly, a Professor of Meteorology and an ARC Federation Fellow in the School of Earth Sciences, has said the ramifications for Perth are stark.

 

- Robert McLean