Showing posts with label prevaricate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prevaricate. Show all posts

17 July, 2016

“Sometimes if you wait for advice that is beyond doubt you can end up with very disastrous consequences,” so said former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard.

That observation was among the justifications the former PM listed that took Australia in the Iraq war in 2003.

Interestingly the world and Australia, in particular, is in precisely that position today – we know climate change is real, we know it is happening, the disastrous consequences are understood and known, but still, we prevaricate and procrastinate as the responsible men await “advice that is beyond doubt.”

Read Richard Ackland’s story in The Saturday Paper - “Gadfly: Where the truth lies.”

09 December, 2014

We prevaricate, procrastinate and ponder although the endgame is upon us


Foreign Minister Julie Bishop
will represent Australia at the
pre-Paris talks in Lima, Peru.
An endgame with world-side consequences is afoot.

World leaders prevaricate, procrastinate and ponder all looking helpless and befuddled as nature, adhering to an absolutely understandably science, marches inexorably on.

Australia is not insulated from this time-wasting quibbling rather; it is the champion of the world’s back-pedallers having disabled what climate change mitigation infrastructure it had, introduced ineffective Direct Action legislation and worked hard, and although it has failed, to convince Australians that climate change matters only to academics and of no interest or concern of the ordinary person.

In the shadow of this perverse behaviour, Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, will arrive in the Peruvian capital, Lima, tomorrow (Tuesday, December 10) for a UN meeting at which 150 countries will attempt to establish guidelines for a major Paris meeting next year at which the aim is to set an international climate policy for the post-Kyoto years, from 2020.

To her credit, Minister Bishop appears acutely conscious of the political consequences of not attending to climate change matters and sensing the importance of attending conference, challenged the PM, Tony Abbott, who had decreed she should not attend.

The Age tells the story in a report headed: “Julie Bishop outflanks Prime Minister Tony Abbott on climate change conference”.