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Jul 22, 2022Liked by John Birmingham

Thanks John. And there's the reliable mystery again - a harsh, unwelcome truth, but the writing's so well aimed and makes so many complicated things cohere, that I feel better and more hopeful for reading it. Surely facing up to what's happening is the start of doing of our best to deal with it. X

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JB: Blunt and stark - and Lord Turner - come on, AA - listen to the Greens and the TEAL cross-benchers - up your targets - and then make them happen. Outlaw big coal/big mining export lobbyists. Fund and nationalise if it helps - all the solar and wind power developers in Australia - no foreign shareholders - all for the nation!

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I'm not looking forward to Summer.

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"my Twitter feed, but they’ve been busy this week with birthing parenthood..." HEY I resemble that remark, I just sent a scathing SCATHING email to services Australia about this issue and you know what I meant it to sting. I confess after this weeks news about the heatwave I have been watching and rewatching that scene from The Hunger Games - Mockingjay "You can torture us and bomb and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that?" One of the cameras follows where I point to the planes burning on the roof of a warehouse across from us. "Fire is catching!" I am shouting now, determined he will not miss a word of it, "And if we burn, you burn with us!”

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The deniers are still denying

As a volunteer firefighter in Australian bushfires I have seen people watching the approaching flames while we scream at them to "LEAVE NOW !!!! GET OUT!!!!"

They just stare in shock and disbelief, this cannot be happening to them in their quiet safe comfortable life, they are frozen and just say "We will wait and see what happens"

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The ALP won't be worrying about the teal independents. There is already a group on their heels and that is the Greens. Personally I wonder how the Northern Hemisphere will adapt to Australian like summers. If you feel like watching denial in practice lower your standards and watch the GBN people talking to a meteorologist.

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And if the ground's not cold, everything is gonna burn

We'll all take turns

I'll get mine too

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It's Australians that need to stop pretending. Not just politicians. My guess is that, if Australians were to be told what effect the cessation of Australia's second biggest export would have on their standard of living, they would scream blue murder. We're dumb and greedy and generally couldn't give a fuck about anyone else especially future generations. Why else would we send iron ore to China and buy shit steel back off them and think we're clever? High iron ore prices translate into high steel prices. Where's the gain in that?

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Grow a set Albo and leave it in the ground..

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