The Gloves are Off

 Predatory climate deniers, are a threat to our children    - Richard Flanagan

Well go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective.

 

Too often the adverse changes in the world are ignored or denied. In this age of rapidly melting glaciers, terrifying megafires and ever more puissant hurricanes, of acidifying and rising oceans, it is hard to believe that any further prod to climate action is needed.

But the reality is that we continue to live in a business-as-usual world. Our media is filled with enthusiastic announcements about new fossil fuel projects, or the unveiling of the latest fossil-fueled supercar, as if there’s no relationship between such things and climate change.

In Australia, the disconnect among our political leaders on the deadly nature of fossil fuels is particularly breathtaking.

Each year the situation becomes more critical. Global emissions of greenhouse gases rise while the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere jumps.

No climate report or warning, no political agreement nor technological innovation has altered the ever-upward trajectory of the pollution. This simple fact forces me to look back on the past 20 years of climate activism as a colossal failure.

In this painting the two bird/children can't connect.

They sit on a plastic mat, holding plastic tubing and they glare, with mouths firmly shut.

The crop is a monoculture.

Hills' are barren.

A storm is brewing.

One lone bird remains in the sky, wary and unsure.