Eyes wide shut on the issue of the century
"Climate change has even US conservatives worried, but here the hip pocket still rules, writes Elizabeth Farrelly.
"Australia is unusual among First World countries in combining a relatively educated populace, an extraordinarily fragile environment and a crude mining mentality. It's not a good mix. Indeed, as Jared Diamond pointed out in Collapse, our ruthless extension of the mining mind-set from minerals to renewable resources such as soil, fisheries and forests has only intensified our continental fragility.
"Yet we go on exploiting our land rather than our intelligence, global warming or no, and choosing our leaders accordingly.
"This is the mystery. Polls show we worry about climate change, but we vote from the hip pocket. John Howard, the polls tell us, makes us feel safe. But we blind ourselves to the yawning chasm between feeling safe and being safe. Ask the ostrich ..."
Sydney Morning Herald
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Tagged: environment, climate+change, global+warming, australia
"Australia is unusual among First World countries in combining a relatively educated populace, an extraordinarily fragile environment and a crude mining mentality. It's not a good mix. Indeed, as Jared Diamond pointed out in Collapse, our ruthless extension of the mining mind-set from minerals to renewable resources such as soil, fisheries and forests has only intensified our continental fragility.
"Yet we go on exploiting our land rather than our intelligence, global warming or no, and choosing our leaders accordingly.
"This is the mystery. Polls show we worry about climate change, but we vote from the hip pocket. John Howard, the polls tell us, makes us feel safe. But we blind ourselves to the yawning chasm between feeling safe and being safe. Ask the ostrich ..."
Sydney Morning Herald
Latest news on global warming
Tagged: environment, climate+change, global+warming, australia
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