Useful climate change plan beyond most politicians

-       Robert McLean

It is unlikely that any politician understands, or is at least likely to commit to a plan that would seriously mitigate climate change.

Jill Stark.

Australians are so entrenched in and addicted to their consumptive lifestyles that any suggestion to moderate, or significantly change that, would be political suicide.

Let’s be generous and suggest that maybe some in the political stratum do understand and appreciate the seriousness of climate change, but like most of us live lives of contradiction and within that are acutely aware that to “be the change they want to see” would put them “outside the tent” and so unable in any way to influence societal behaviour.

Still inside the tent and attempting to be the change he wants to see and yet constrained by pervasive societal values is Greens leader, Richard Di Natale.

Like most of us, Di Natale still lives a life embedded in an economy whose maintenance and survival depends on growth and the ever increasing use of irreplaceable resources and the voracious use of fossil fuels.

Despite living the contradiction that most of us do, Di Natale has something important to say and so his voice should be equal to that of both Turnbull and Shorten.

Read Jill Starks’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “'The Green tide is coming in': Di Natale challenges Turnbull, Shorten to leaders debate.”