As record fires rage, the country’s leaders seem intent on sending it to its doom.
Read Richard Flanagan in the New York Times of January 3, 2020.
s://www.nytimes.com/2020/0
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4 responses to “RICHARD FLANAGAN.- Australia is Committing Climate Suicide”
Australian is hiding a very dark secret for many years. Like the denial of climate change, there is also some more pressing topics: The genocide of Australian children
Australia never really stopped the forcible removal of children. It just went under the carpet. The former PM Kevin Rudd made a symbolic ceremony to apologise to the crimes committed against Aboriginal mothers but it was all a “propaganda” to the world to believe that the genocide had stopped. It never did. In fact the number of forcible removal of children are much higher. Since the apology of 2007, an estimate of 15,000 children or more have been forcibly removed. Aboriginal mothers are threated if they speak up against the Apartheid Government of Australia they will have their 2nd child also removed so they remain silent.
The Apartheid Government of Australia is also using the forcible policy of removing children against Foreign mothers married by the White Australian Man.
They have no voice and are threatened by the racist Australian Police and told no one will believe her. The Australian Courts and the children lawyers will vilify and racially abuse the foreign mothers and they are denied an interpreter, a lawyer and in a matter of 5 secret hearings their children are forcibly removed from them by force and dragged to a dirty, dark basement car park of the Courts. The mother’s mistake: To believe the Australian Government that women should not suffer Domestic Violence. It is the biggest scam from the Australian Government, Australian Judicial System and the Australian Police.
Many children will run away and be dragged again by Police to suffer despicable acts of violence against them. Many now are setting bushfires and around 200 have been caught. They are angry they were forcibly removed and placed with violent white supremacists fathers that hit and rape them. Doctors that testify the truth lose their licenses. Some who helped the chilren are sent to Jail.
I wrote to the PM Scott Morrison demanding an investigation of Crimes Committed against Chidren.
I wrote to the UN as well.
I had to fled to Rio as I was threatened by Police, Registrars and Judges.
I have material and I believe we should also demand the Australian Government to explain why his Government are covering up the mass abuse of children and foreign women and Aboriginal women.
I have documents and evidence. The Brazilian Government, lawyers, Police, and other people are following my case and trying to free my 12 year old son, Sean.
His grandfather is 75 years old and has been deprived of seeing his grandson for almost 12 years. Only the Australian grandparents and the father have rights. If you have olive skin and are Brazilian you are treated as an inferior class by the Australian Government and Australian Judicial System.
Can you help me to drawn international attention so my 75 year old father can be reunited with his grandson before he passes away?
Many Thanks,
An
Conservative governments have categorically declined to listen to the advice of climate scientists. Now the opposition is also supporting coal mining and export. Atmospheric CO2 levels have reached a level (412 ppm CO2 + the effects of methane + nitrous oxide) generating amplifying feedbacks from land and oceans and thus further warming. Reductions of emsisions are no longer be sufficient to slow down global warming unless accompanied with draw down of atmospheric greenhouse gases. There is no evidence the latter measure is considered by governments or even in climate conferences.
When the Government of a Constitutional Monarchy fails to represent the people in terms of protection and support, doesn’t the Monarch assume power? Where does the Governor General as the Queen’s representative stand in all of this? Do we actually have a real Constitutional Monarchy or a is it some kind of theoretical model? If the people rise up and eject the Prime Minister for his complete disregard for the Australian people, does that mean we end up with Peter Dutton who will move us into a police state blaming the national emergency as an excuse? If there is any leadership out there then some movement would help to identify you. Where the bloody hell are you?
We are an international embarrassment. We are in a worse political state than the USA when an election can be purchased by overweight white men who make their money by plundering the natural resources from the country with the willing assistance of their paid political class and create climate catastrophe. While the bushfires rage the people are too busy to address these issues. I watch with interest when the emergency subsides and the attention of the populace turns to those responsible for this disaster. Will anything substantive change? I see that Santos are advertising their fracking natural gas product as a partner to clean energy while Australia burns………WTF? And not even a murmur from the press.
I congratulate all those fools who voted for these parasites at the last election. I hope you are enjoying your negatively geared investments and those franking credits that are tucked away in some safe haven somewhere. Australians are stupid and thoroughly deserve this place to be titled the unlucky country. Sharpen the guillotine.
It is a concern that it is only the “unprecedented” scale and intensity of the current fires that has prompted the Australian Government to contribute to the fire-fighting effort. The concept of “forseeability” combined with catastrophic risk provides a more useful framework. Australia has experienced multiple “unprecedented” fires eg typically wet forests have burnt in recent years, a new catastrophic scale was included on the severity index in 2009, and new and dangerous behaviour observed in several fires over the last decade or so. There will be more. The Government has received advice from climate change scientists for more than a decade that a substantial increase in fire weather is likely across south-eastern Australia (eg from Climate Change in Australia 2007, CSIRO, and many more recent reports). The BoM has also reported on numerous occasions about declines in (or relative deficits of) autumn and winter rainfall, including in 2019. It is reasonable to conclude that the current unprecedented fires had some level of forseeability. Such forseeability allows for proactive leadership and it gives the experts time to collaborate on approaches to managing “plausible worst case scenarios”, to connect our emerging national space and digital capabilities to disaster management, and to ensure that changing physical risks are acknowledged and reflected in programs such as the Emissions Reduction Fund (which has significant reliance on forest sequestration performance).