"Even as the fires roar at the gates of power, the Murdoch columnist and others argue climate change is ‘overall, a good thing’"
.......
"What to make of Bolt’s most recent concession to the reality of
actual climate change is what his insistent “good thing, overall”
messaging reveals of the new political reality facing the conservative
movement. Unlike an election result that can be willed into existence
through sheer force of persuasion, the planet is not actually
persuadable. The ideological resistance among conservatives to address
the source of climate crisis is so powerful, so historically entrenched,
that flames literally surround the city in which the conservative
Australian prime minister himself has announced that “resilience and
adaptation” amid the fires will substitute for climate mitigation,
prevention, action to make them stop. On cue, the megaphones insist this
nightmare will be good for us.
Take it from one of the selectively misquoted credible scientists: global heating is not heralding a new agricultural prosperity,
these forces are causing forests to burn, not to bloom. They can’t
offer solutions. The propaganda of a new denial is all they’ve got."
Read the original the Guardian Van Badham article
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