“The climate crisis isn’t a future we must fight to avoid. It’s an
already unfolding reality. It’s the intensification of extreme weather –
cyclones, storms and floods, droughts and deadly heat waves. It’s burning
forests in Australia, the Amazon, Indonesia, Siberia, Canada and California.
It’s melting ice caps, receding glaciers and rising seas.”
“To believe that someone in Morrison’s position could genuinely be
ignorant of the dangers of climate change is itself to give up on reason. The
prime minister of Australia is among the most well-briefed people on the
planet, with thousands of staff at his beck and call to update him on the
latest developments in climate science or any other field he may wish to get
his head around. The only rational explanation is that Morrison and his
like are aware of the dangers posed by climate change but are choosing to act
as though they’re not.”
“They are like angels of death, happy to watch the world burn, and
millions burn with it, if they can preserve for themselves the heavenly realm
of a system that has brought them untold riches. This is language that
Morrison, an evangelical Christian, should understand. What might be harder for
him to grasp is that he’s on the wrong side.”
“When seen from this perspective, everything becomes clearer. In the
face of the climate crisis, the main priority of the global ruling class and
its political servants is to batten down the hatches. Publicly, they’re telling
school kids not to worry about the future. Behind the scenes, however – in the
cabinet offices, boardrooms, mansions and military high commands – they’re hard
at work, planning for a future in which they can maintain their power and
privilege amid the chaos and destruction of the burning world around them.”
https://redflag.org.au/node/6974
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