- Robert McLean
Tony Wright quotes Mark Twain when discussing trains and
submarines and referenced his quote about the paralysis of intellect.
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| Mark Twain - he would be aghast at our intellectual inaction over climate change. |
Twain, I’m sure, would be aghast at the paralysis of our
intellect over human procrastination and hollow rhetoric with regard our
frightening inaction over climate change.
Although Wright was not making observations about climate
change, he was writing about our inability to intellectualise our future and
understand that we can no longer fathom the future by looking through the prism
of the past.
The future is a place we have never been and as it will be
different from what was we need to urgently and diligently employ our
intellect.
Read Tony Wright’s piece in today’s Melbourne Age - “Australia's new $50 billion French submarines could be obsolete.”
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