Ten years ago I nearly made headlines for all the wrong reasons. I was having morning coffee with a group of people who, like me, were regular researchers at the National Library. There, in the sedate surroundings of the Book Plate Cafe, the conversation turned to climate change. It quickly became clear that one of the group was a denier, writing a book proving climate scientists were all wrong.
I’m ashamed to say that what stopped me wasn’t the wrongness of physical violence as a response to a difference of opinion. It was the headline I suddenly pictured: Author Assaults Elderly Researcher.So, you could say I’ve been an activist – though not a very effective one – for climate change for a long time. I’ve done the rooftop panels, gone on the marches, and handed out the how-to-vote cards.But until recently it was a head thing, not a heart thing.
It’s the image of the breakdown of order – even more than the image of fires and floods – that fills me with horror for all those two-year-olds, and all the kids yet unborn. If the last roll of toilet paper is worth coming to blows over, what will happen when it’s about the last food, the last water?. But there’s still time to pull back from climate disaster, and this was a chance to do something positive.
This is irresponsible nonsense, the level of compliance and assistance with really onerous conditions was absolutely astounding. anyone who has lived through a flood or bushfire could tell you communities come together in disasters.
For me COVID had show me 'moral hazard' - an utter reliance on a third party be it government or other 'to bail them out' and 'having a sense of entitlement for other to bail them out.' Including this article.
MSM certainly likes to scare people.