Australia’s climate stance is inflicting criminal damage on humanity

The top priority of government is security of the people. Yet on the greatest threat of all, most governments are failing abysmally.

Australia is the most exposed continent to climate change,
but remains in a state of climate denial and delay.

As the global influence of western democracies wanes with the ascendancy of China, India and other emerging countries, the resulting power struggle is diverting attention from the great issues the world faces, to their symptoms.

The neoliberal market economy, with its unregulated consumption and rapacious short-term outlook, is destroying modern civilisation. The warning signs are obvious, not least burgeoning high-consuming populations, massive biodiversity loss and multiple resource scarcities. Yet rather than reform an unsustainable system, political leaders scramble to prop it up and compound the problem. The result is Brexit, Trump’s Mexican wall, escalating Middle East tension, the US-China trade standoff, a global arms and space race, Amazon deforestation and much more.

Read the story from The Guardian by Ian Dunlop and David Spratt - “Australia’s climate stance is inflicting criminal damage on humanity.”

Scott Morrison says drought the Coalition's 'first call' – but makes no mention of climate

Scott Morrison has indicated the federal government might be prepared to commit extra relief funding to drought-stricken communities, reaffirming the drought is the government’s top priority.

The prime minister, Scott Morrison, told the Liberal
party federal council the drought is ‘the rock I’m
going to put in the jar first’.

In a triumphal speech to the Liberal party’s federal council in Canberra on Saturday, Morrison again said the drought was “the most pressing and biggest call on our budget”.

“It is the first cab off the rank, the first thing we sit together and say, ‘Once we have done everything we can in this area, then we can consider other priorities’.

“It is the biggest call on the budget because it is the most pressing, the rock I’m going to put in the jar first. It is the first call because that is what is needed in our rural and regional communities. They know we cannot make it rain and they know we cannot make it like it was before the drought.”

Read the story from The Guardian by Ben Doherty - “Scott Morrison says drought the Coalition's 'first call' – but makes no mention of climate.”