The pond felt the need for a change of pace, and decided to drop in on that great environmental apologist and reptile window dresser, and was startled to discover that Lloydie seemed to be infested with gloom ...
Sure, others were being titillated by Julie Bishop's gotcha moment, and there was the man from Cronulla welcoming the backing of the ALP - could that Bill be as kind as Mathias had suggested? - but the pond was compelled, transfixed by Lloydie's pessimistic demeanour ...
Relax, it wasn't so much concern about the reef, as the way fiends and perverts might use the fate of the reef for nefarious political purposes ...
Relax, it wasn't so much concern about the reef, as the way fiends and perverts might use the fate of the reef for nefarious political purposes ...
And yet it wasn't so long ago that everything was spiffing and all for the best, in the slightly imperfect, not quite the best of, imperfect worlds ...
The Bolter was on the same sort of roll ...
Lloydie was doing his best to talk it all up, back then ...
But lately things haven't been going so well - there have been more stories about the bleaching of the reef than you could shake a stick at or google in a second - and the cartoons have been flying thick and fast ...
(Fairfax cartoons are here, Tandberg here).
So was Lloydie really worried and agitated about the reef this day?
So was Lloydie really worried and agitated about the reef this day?
Well not really, his major concern was the political implications ...
Yes, they're fiddling at the edges, with the Virgin flying into help and the Crown of Thorns tackled, but sad to say, the talk of improved water quality has bugger all to do with the area where the major bleaching took place ... in the north ...
What could possibly be the problem? How could this have happened?
Sadly the pond doesn't have the foggiest, having relied on getting the very best climate science advice from such top climate scientists as the reassuring walri man, always ready with a platitude, and a glib explanation, and the Bolter, Lloydie, the Pellists, Miranda the Devine, Dame Slap and Lord Monckton and the whole damn lot of them living in the land of the lizard Oz.
Sadly the pond doesn't have the foggiest, having relied on getting the very best climate science advice from such top climate scientists as the reassuring walri man, always ready with a platitude, and a glib explanation, and the Bolter, Lloydie, the Pellists, Miranda the Devine, Dame Slap and Lord Monckton and the whole damn lot of them living in the land of the lizard Oz.
Never mind, the pond has already written off the reef.
In the meantime, we can celebrate the transition which will see the ocean temperature reduce, and so the day can be saved, at least until the next day when it can't, and more reports can be censored, so that all can say that mum's the word, and Lloydie can continue with the art of distraction and reeling and writhing ...
And don't you worry about anything because in an imperfect world, everything is for the best ... and it would verge on the indecent to note the dreadful, festering things that lurk beneath the water ... or the even more obvious things that are in plain sight above it ...
In the meantime, we can celebrate the transition which will see the ocean temperature reduce, and so the day can be saved, at least until the next day when it can't, and more reports can be censored, so that all can say that mum's the word, and Lloydie can continue with the art of distraction and reeling and writhing ...
And don't you worry about anything because in an imperfect world, everything is for the best ... and it would verge on the indecent to note the dreadful, festering things that lurk beneath the water ... or the even more obvious things that are in plain sight above it ...
(Below: and more Rowe here).
"I've experienced coral bleaching before"
ReplyDeleteThe poor darling.
I have a rather gorgeous cousin called Coral who bleaches her hair.
DeleteEvery time I hear 'coral bleaching' I can't help thinking of her.
There was also an essay re how many disaffected voters vote for the Greens despite their "loopy ideas".
ReplyDeleteBut what could be more loopy in this day and age than believing that one is "saved" by believing in Jesus and all the nonsense associated with that, especially the kind promoted by the benighted ghouls that "live" in the "holy" shit-house in Rome.
Turnbull is a hypocritical shit. He cries crocodile tears about a kid with cancer but wants to charge my wife (who has ovarian cancer and has at the most two years to live) $50 for each pathology test she has to have every week.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of people would we be to deprive the millions and billions, boiling indoors and broiling outdoors on the subcontinent, and lately made subject to public health ban of cooking during the daytime for fear of extreme heat-stress, of the clean, high-quality, Aussie-derived agricultural lime which will lift them out of a dietary poverty-trap?
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