tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8768341168588598033.post4586265925036587302..comments2023-09-03T12:01:46.342-07:00Comments on Global Change musings: Are we due for a revolution in global consciousness?Global Change Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10414537060472660654noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8768341168588598033.post-85300020856363387152014-01-18T16:07:56.780-08:002014-01-18T16:07:56.780-08:00The simple achievable solution is to stop voting f...The simple achievable solution is to stop voting for political parties and start electing independents to parliament. Party politics and all that is behind it is the problem not the solution. We can have a revolution just by using the tools we have. No bloodshed required! Give the government back to the people. All it takes is a little guts from each voter and a little trustJugularhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08293237664208390757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8768341168588598033.post-20659407688171083772014-01-18T16:04:19.155-08:002014-01-18T16:04:19.155-08:00First, all the realists stop answering denialists....First, all the realists stop answering denialists. Climate science is in, no discussion whatsoever of the basics, just how fast and how bad and, most important, what we do.<br /><br />The way to change the discussion is to change the discussion. Simple. <br /><br />Murdoch and others won't change until is doesn't PAY to be doubters. Clicks and sales are all they care about. ABC has followed them down that rabbit hole (of caring above all about bums on seats), so similar applies there.<br /><br />Many more politicians understand climate change than their utterances would indicate, I'm sure, but there are few brave politicians; politics is about compromise. (Unless you are an Abbott, when it is about thuggishness, which just sometimes comes off for a while, but he is heading for a crash, or Australia is really in trouble)<br /><br />But on some issues politics as usual does not work, and climate is one<br /><br />"Australia is still one of the richest and freeest" - Australia is massively wealthy, getting wealthier year by year, and of course it is extremely free, in terms of every other society in the history of the world. To even suggest otherwise is ABSURD. It is our very wealth that is killing not just the planet via climate change, but our own society. Politicians have pandered to the "Aussie battler" so long that now we all believe we are doing it tough. Take Indonesia: average wealth ONE TENTH of Australia's. <br /><br />We are aboard Cruise Ship Australis. And we are heading for the rocks. And quite possibly that is just what we need for our souls' sake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com