Major parties ignore ice melt
Chunks of ice the size of the country of Wales have fallen off the Antarctic shelf.
The oceans are now twice as acidic as when they were last measured.
The perma-frost is thawing throughout its whole depth, thus releasing tons of greenhouse gasses.
Coastal properties are being eaten away by the rising seas.
In short, we as a species are threatened with disaster.
Both major parties have ignored this situation.
Nobody is doing anything effective.
I would like to see a party with the guts to do something on a scale of the imminent catastrophe.
Such as:
Put Australia on a wartime footing.
The government has the power to direct money and manpower to solve the technical problem of capturing and neutralizing the coal emissions as their source; the stacks of the furnace.
Thousands of workers and billions of dollars to be deployed to build solar systems, wind farms etc. to provide the country with renewable energy.
If these measures seem extreme, the alternative is that the ocean will lose all its power to absorb harmful gasses, oxygen will become insufficient for all life forms, except a primitive jelly fish and the air so clouded that the sunlight will be insufficient to grow crops.
This is what is happening now.
How about asking your MP to do something?
They are doing nothing and will do nothing unless Joe Blow demands it.
Letter, 29 Aug 2013
Louise Rennie, Pearl Beach