Climate changes worsens as the 'clock-winders' do nought

-       Robert McLean

Clock-winding - once serious, hard work,
now it's about just winding us up.

Climate change worsens as the “do-nothing” rhetoric, seemingly without end, continues with a perverse enthusiasm.

Australia’s CSIRO is caught up in the midst of this ideological bluster and wailing as the political among us verbally arm-wrestle each other to that “do-nothing” place, while climate change, unmoved and unchanged by those rhetorical flourishes and worsening to become even more entrenched.

Nature, and by implication climate change, does not rest and further tightens its grip around humanity’s throat as our “clock-winders” (parliamentarians) gather in Canberra to procrastinate over matters of procedure that relate only to them and have no impact on matters that may slow the worsening of climate change.

Nor, for that matter, do those same people say or do anything that might prepare Australians for the different and difficult circumstances a disrupted climate system will cause to settle on this “. . . . land of sweeping plains, of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.”

The politicization of climate change, inevitable but desperately sad, has derailed the public conversation allowing our clock-winders to wallow in inaction and so have no impact on slowing or changing our business as usual behaviour.