The opinion page of the Herald Sun today published an article called 'Shame on the Greens,' which has no authoor indicated, so I'm not sure who my blog is replying to this time, but I just had to respond anyway.
Brace yourselves, the Heralds Sun has pissed me off again!
IT’S disgraceful the Greens have yet again used a natural disaster to pursue a political agenda.
Yeh! You can only use human-made disasters like boats crashing against our shores to pursue a political agenda!
First it was Greens MP Adam Bandt who foolishly tried to somehow
make Prime Minister Tony Abbott responsible — because of his
government’s climate change policy — for the recent bushfire tragedy in
New South Wales.
Yeh disgraceful! Trying to blame Tony Abbott just because his government has undone regulation of climate-related environmental standards, by shutting down the Climate Commision and Climate Change Authority and plans on getting rid of the carbon tax. Just because these things make the temperature go up because carbon emissions arn't being monitored or regulated SOMEHOW Adam Bandt thinks there's some sort of connection when bushfires start in the hot weather caused by global warming???!!! How CRAZY can Adam Bandt get?
Doesn't Adam Bandt realise that the victims of that fire will be OFFENDED that Bandt would use their tragedy to try and stop other people like them from burning to death??? That comment may not sound very rational but you've gotta believe it because I'm a white male wearing a fancy suit and a blue tie!
Now, as the Herald Sun reveals today,
Greens Senator Richard Di Natale has drawn a link between the
devastating Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and the Federal
Government’s plans to axe the carbon tax.
“You’ve got record
storms in the Philippines and now you’ve got record stupidity from Tony
Abbott, who’s basically going to unwind some of the world’s most
ambitious and important climate change legislation,” Di Natale told the Herald Sun’s Phillip Hudson.
He then accused Mr Abbott of making no sense at all by taking an anti-science stance on climate change.
Let me get this straight! Tony Abbott is unwinding climate change legislation that will be prevent storms which are already at record levels, from getting EVEN WORSE. But I'm supposed to be mad at the person who points out that Abbott's decisions don't make any sense at all? That is so stupid it makes my head hurt.
What
is really stupid and makes no sense is this repeated use by the Greens
of death and destruction to try to gain political advantage.
You know who else uses death and destruction to their personal advantage? Doctors! Doctors use their patients' fear of their impending death for their own monetary advange! However, we don't shame doctors, because doctors CURE their patients of very real and fatal diseases, just like the Greens are working on a very real and fatal problem! Fuck you, Herald Sun, you fucking retard!
It is
to be hoped Australians of all political persuasions see this unsavoury
tactic for what it is — cheap opportunism of the sort to be deplored.
Bandt was wrong to make the link last month and Di Natale was misguided in following Bandt’s lead yesterday.
I'm supposed to deplore opportunism for the cause of preventing man-made natural disasters? Fuck you!
If the Greens don't use specific instances of human tragedy, people won't care! That's how people's minds work! If you can't put a human face to a tragedy and give a story an emotional pull, then people won't care!
The difference with global warming is that you don't know for sure that this particular fire was caused by global warming, or if this particular storm would have been just as bad without global warming. But if we cannot attach a human face to global warming based on this, then nothing will ever get done, because nobody will ever care, because the people that global warming does kill will always be faceless statistics!
They NEED to politicise this stuff! People don't care enough! They've voted in a guy who said he thinks global warming is 'absolute crap!"
They both deserve our widespread condemnation for their ridiculously insensitive and hurtful statements.
INSENSITIVE AND HURTFUL TO WHO??? Just speaking for myself, but if my home had been destroyed by natural disasters and someone tried to use my circumstances as a way to minimise the natural disasters that could happen to other people, I would actually think that was a GOOD thing! I would be the person who is more likely than anyone to empathise with that cause!
Clearly
the Greens are ideologues who will use any human tragedy, no matter how
large the loss of life and property, for their own selfish political
ends.
Their own SELFISH political ends??? The Herald Sun just called tackling global warming 'selfish!' An issue that can effect not just the Greens, but every single person on the entire planet! THAT'S selfish???
So according to the Herald Sun, the people who don't want to pay $26 per tonne for all the coal that's causing global warming arn't selfish, the Greens are selfish because though some obscure and perverted interpretation, someone involved in these tragedies might take offence at the idea that people like them are being helped... The Herald Sun's apathy towards global warming is pulsing off the page. They may as well just write 'we don't give a rat's arse about global warming and never will until the water reaches our necks, so shut up Bandt and Natale!'
MAYBE Bandt and Di natale's brand of global warming activism is being done for selfish political reasons, or maybe they JUST DON'T WANT THE PLANET TO BE DESTROYED!!! DID THAT EVER FRICKING OCCUR TO YOU, HERALD SUN???
Whoever wrote this article should walk right up to the nearest tree and beg the tree's forgiveness for being a complete waste of all the oxygen that the tree worked so hard to produce!
