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"Denial, obfuscation, concession, inaction: In the space of two weeks, Scott Morrison has laid out the emergency-response playbook for pat-earthers everywhere. This is how we should expect conservatives to treat Patient Earth as the climate emergency worsens: as the site of successive wounds to be treated reactively and in isolation, rather than a sick organism in need of urgent, holistic preventive care. These isolated disaster-recovery efforts will continue until, guess what? It will be too late to do anything. And by then, the planet will be lost to us. " "By the time I arrived back in Sydney, a few days before Christmas, the haze over the city had abated, but the smell of smoke as I exited the airport was both powerful and alarming—alarming because the climate had altered but people’s lives, apparently, had not. Whether this displayed admirable human adaptability or meek acquiescence before an unconscionable new ecological reality, I couldn’t tell. I grew up in Sydney and lived here for almost three decades before moving to the United States. Nothing about this air, this fire season, was normal. On the way out of the airport, I noticed an Australian flag flying at half-mast. With a mawkishness that was only a little self-conscious, I took it as an omen for the country’s vital prospects. "
"Denial, obfuscation, concession, inaction: In the space of two weeks, Scott Morrison has laid out the emergency-response playbook for pat-earthers everywhere. This is how we should expect conservatives to treat Patient Earth as the climate emergency worsens: as the site of successive wounds to be treated reactively and in isolation, rather than a sick organism in need of urgent, holistic preventive care. These isolated disaster-recovery efforts will continue until, guess what? It will be too late to do anything. And by then, the planet will be lost to us. " "By the time I arrived back in Sydney, a few days before Christmas, the haze over the city had abated, but the smell of smoke as I exited the airport was both powerful and alarming—alarming because the climate had altered but people’s lives, apparently, had not. Whether this displayed admirable human adaptability or meek acquiescence before an unconscionable new ecological reality, I couldn’t tell. I grew up in Sydney and lived here for almost three decades before moving to the United States. Nothing about this air, this fire season, was normal. On the way out of the airport, I noticed an Australian flag flying at half-mast. With a mawkishness that was only a little self-conscious, I took it as an omen for the country’s vital prospects. "
Australia has become so politically cynical, after so many prime ministers' ability to govern was interrupted by the Murdoch media gossip pulp mill. In being distracted away from electoral politics, we surrender our political will to corporate entities that decide according to the """implicitly fair""" market. It's telling how racist paranoia spreads in Australia, we blame the foreign companies we sell our land to for mining or agriculture interests, while failing to acknowledge those connected to our government that profit from it. It's an absolutely critical moment for Australians, to come out of this smokey amnesia and front up with reality.
Australia has become so politically cynical, after so many prime ministers' ability to govern was interrupted by the Murdoch media gossip pulp mill. In being distracted away from electoral politics, we surrender our political will to corporate entities that decide according to the """implicitly fair""" market. It's telling how racist paranoia spreads in Australia, we blame the foreign companies we sell our land to for mining or agriculture interests, while failing to acknowledge those connected to our government that profit from it. It's an absolutely critical moment for Australians, to come out of this smokey amnesia and front up with reality.
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