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Damn you Bob Brown

April 8, 2007 on 6:48 pm | In Uncategorized |

I just had a flash of inspiration. Usually I have them while I’m out jogging lurching but the weather was too crappy to lurch today so I had this flash while I was cooking tea instead (roast chicken if you’re interested).

Anyway I suddenly realised why governments in developed countries can never be expected to do anything constructive about global warming. It’s because those governments and their alternatives* are run by people who have spent the last 20 years entertaining themselves at the expense of the Greens. To turn around now and adopt sensible policies about global warming would be to admit that for 20 years the Greens had been right and they, the smirking unimaginative suits, had been capital ‘W’ Wrong. And they’ll never do it. Their pride won’t permit it.

In Australia there’s even less chance because the Greens spokesperson for all that period has been Bob Brown. For someone like Tip Costello to admit that he’s been wrong while a self-confessed ho-mo-sexule like Bob Brown had been correct is expecting way too much of human nature. It would mean that all those years of ‘green queen’ jokes were revealed for the childish bigotry they actually were. It’s not gunna happen. Forget it. They’d rather drown - literally - than concede that the Greens in general and Bob Brown in particular are their intellectual and moral superiors.

On such petty matters does the fate of nations hang.

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*Excepting a few European countries like Germany where Green parties have had more than fringe support, which probably explains why the EU is the only governmental institution in the world to get serious about global warming, pathetically ineffectual though its actions have been.