Global warming doesn't get a look in - in Australia it's the economy, in the U.S. is gay marriage

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enior Australia politicians have argued that the economy is vastly more important than concerning themselves about equity in marriage, meaning gay marriage.

Rick Santorum - he thinks it is more
 important to attend to gay marriage
than climate change.

Such a position is similar, but different from that in the U.S. where Rick Santorum, one of the many climate-denying GOP candidates running for president in 2016, who has argued that gay marriage is more deserving of attention than climate change.

Both are clearly about “business as usual”, growth and maintenance of the status-quo, a dynamic which Nicolas Stern says in his new book “Why Are We Waiting?: The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling ClimateChange” promise only serious climate disruption.

Soon after the U.S. Supreme Court of judicial overreach with its decision on Friday that effectively made same-sex marriage legal across the country Santorum said: “Instead of doing their proper limited job, they’ve decided to step into the realm of politics.”

Read the EcoWatch story, “Rick Santorum: We Need to Fight Gay Marriage More Than Climate Change”.