The apocalypse, now!
And that fiend Richard Marles, smirking and gloating … but the reptiles know that Labor is unravelling, it's full of splitters doing a poor quality Python imitation ...
As for the wretched finch at the heart of the fuss, the reptiles have sorted it all out, anything to avoid the apocalypse …
Yes dinkum backyard breeders could just roll up their sleeves and save the pesky bird, and so keep the love affair between the reptiles and dinky clean Oz coal going. And think of the tourism dollar, as tourists gather to marvel at the finch, as jaunty and perky as anything in their backyard cages …
Sad to say however, the pond was a tad disappointed at the climate science denialism trotted out to deal with the catastrophe ...
The whole thing could have been summarised by the line "it's gunna cost ya." No, not changes in the climate, doing anything about the climate … oh, it's gunna cost ya ….
Indeed, indeed, it's gunna cost ya, and there's nothing we can or should do about it … it's a debate going on around the world, and everyone knows it's gunna cost ya, and should be ignored at every turn …
What crisis, you cackling geese? The only crisis is that it's gunna cost ya, not changes to the climate, but futile attempts to do anything about it ...
We'll all be rooned, said Hanfisherhan, before the year is out …
The real crisis, the genuine apocalypse, is an attempt to drive a wedge between the reptiles and their love of dinkum clean coal … and for what. Why get them agitated with talk of the apocalypse ... because it's gunna cost ya ...
It was a relief to turn from the apocalypse to the savvy Savva's tale of heartening uplift ...
Yes, there are wins everywhere at the moment … just look at the infallible Pope celebrating yet another win, with more winning Pope here …
But enough of sweet harmonising, it's time for the savvy Savva ...
70 people! Why it's a veritable flood of people anxious to avoid the apocalypse, and the invasion from the north.
The pond felt inspired and hopeful, and even experienced a little yearning for singing nuns … because, completely unsolicited, two people volunteered to help the campaign.
The pond could sense a quivering in the boots, an almost irrational excitement, a surge of triumphalism ...
Indeed, indeed, everyone relies on Newspoll, and truth to tell, the polls have an impeccable record for getting it right … and yet the pond could sense some saucy doubts and fears in the savvy Savva, just as it seemed we'd entered the straight with the good ship SloMo on a fast course to victory, driven by the wind in its Tampa sails ...
Say what? From renewed hope, then a short hop, skip and a jump to along way from being confident?
Niggling fears? Say it ain't so? All the hopes in her survey dashed at the last moment …even the savvy Savva cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears ...
Sure there's a few dropkicks in the ranks, but even he sings a good song, better than a singing nun, and besides there's always Barners, shop-soiled but always ready for a bargain basement sale …
And Rowe himself, in his usual positive way, is full of tales of hope … with more hopeful Rowe here … celebrating the wind in the sails ...
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteCould this Brian Fisher be the same as this Brian Fisher back in The Australian in 2014?
“Brian Fisher is a very strong player… he was always mad then, he’s still mad...”
“In credit for these efforts, Clive Hamilton named him as one of the 'dirty dozen' who had done greatest harm to efforts to control Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions under the Rudd-Gillard Labor Government.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/business-spectator/abbott-recalls-one-of-the-dirty-dozen/news-story/958bee83a233f0391717c8e7656dd6dd
DiddyWrote
Nice find DW. Love your work.
DeleteYes, agreed, Anony.
DeleteHowever, if anybody is really interested in Climate Change, may I highly recommend this post:
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/02/do-you-believe-in-climate-change-really/
Ok, so who, if anybody, really does believe in Climate Change ? I don't, because I'll be gone before it truly becomes critical (though if you ask some farmers they might aver that it already is). And that's the problem, isn't it: those, including everybody's children, who will most suffer are those who have the least power to change things.
Thus it has ever been in this small planetary universe of homo sapiens sapiens.
Tristan Edis' comment yesterday
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I like the description in the original article of clean coal as "moon shot" technology. Most of these ideas never looked like working. CCS, even on truly optimistic projections, would suck up more than a third of the energy produced to run the sequestration process. The likelihood of success went down as the costs went up at the same time as renewable costs dropped like a stone. Join the dots.
The thing about lies is that it takes time and effort to do the full rebuttal. Given the amount of shite that the Australian publishes you are forced to make assumptions based on "form" rather than hunt down the facts.
"If a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…"
DeleteJonathan Swift in The Examiner, 1710.
Or, less elegant but more current - Brandolini's Law (aka the Bullshit Assymetry Principle): "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it. "
One might have hoped, FD, with so much well-intentioned wisdom available for consumption, that we'd have progressed past the eloquent regrets stage and maybe made some progress in defenestrating the accumulated bullshit.
DeleteBut no, it grows apace and seems to have an almost infinite capacity to regenerate itself. Perhaps this is why we still have millenia-old bullshit everywhere we look.
Some deeply disguised and most unexpected wisdom from the Savva when she cries; "...there is always the niggling fear that last week could turn out to be as good as it gets."
ReplyDeletePeople can spend lifetimes captured by that fear ... except for when things really do blow up in their face.
everything is the fault of ALP and the Greens .. just everything.
ReplyDeleteMorrison's lot can't go a week without plumbing some new low, an embarrassing own goal or something blowing up in their faces. This election won't be about boats.
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