all about the environment
So, today we're all talking about climate change and what the new government has to say about it.
It's an interesting proposition, to only go half way (just in case the rest of the world doesn't get as into it as we do). I can understand why our leadership would want to at first offer a plan where we start out not sacrificing as much as we could, but it's a ballsy argument. People might not want to do more later on down the track, they may vote in a different government, choose selfishness rather than old Captain Planet. Could go the other way though, because things will get worse, more species will die out. Most people are unconcerned with a matter unless it directly effects things though, so things are going to have to get pretty bad before people start giving a fuck.
While yes, the Great Barrier Reef is dying and we may not be able to keep global temperatues down, we still have to look at what has been done and what can be done to preserve resources that are problematic, not because climate change is having an adverse effect, but because mismanagement and procrastination has resulted in an epic environmental fail.
What about the rivers eh? Cutting water off from it's natural path and putting it somewhere else is never less than a catastrophe. Pumping huge amounts of waste (hazardous and human) hasn't worked out so well for us in the past. Rivers are rarely safe to swim in these days, not by the time they get towards the coast anyway, and considering how many people rely on them, that's a big problem.
I just hope that we don't focus on the bigger forest and lose sight of the trees. I hope it's not just higher utility and petrol bills while leaders jet around the glove for conferences, all talk and no action.
So what do the rest of you think?
It's an interesting proposition, to only go half way (just in case the rest of the world doesn't get as into it as we do). I can understand why our leadership would want to at first offer a plan where we start out not sacrificing as much as we could, but it's a ballsy argument. People might not want to do more later on down the track, they may vote in a different government, choose selfishness rather than old Captain Planet. Could go the other way though, because things will get worse, more species will die out. Most people are unconcerned with a matter unless it directly effects things though, so things are going to have to get pretty bad before people start giving a fuck.
While yes, the Great Barrier Reef is dying and we may not be able to keep global temperatues down, we still have to look at what has been done and what can be done to preserve resources that are problematic, not because climate change is having an adverse effect, but because mismanagement and procrastination has resulted in an epic environmental fail.
What about the rivers eh? Cutting water off from it's natural path and putting it somewhere else is never less than a catastrophe. Pumping huge amounts of waste (hazardous and human) hasn't worked out so well for us in the past. Rivers are rarely safe to swim in these days, not by the time they get towards the coast anyway, and considering how many people rely on them, that's a big problem.
I just hope that we don't focus on the bigger forest and lose sight of the trees. I hope it's not just higher utility and petrol bills while leaders jet around the glove for conferences, all talk and no action.
So what do the rest of you think?