[Green-Activist] Re: [ClimateChangeAction] Some campaign strategysuggestions re climate change

[frank]

Don't pass yourself off as a greenie if you're obsessed with the Labor Party 
or for that matter the Libs.  Those parties brought us here and they are 
never going to fix the mess.  BOTH major parties have to be destroyed by 
greenies if we are to fix the problem.

Do u know which group actively opposes the notion that humans can actually 
fix the world environmental problem?  I'll give u a hint.  It's the same 
group who aided and abetted every decision which led to the current 
situation.  Do u know yet?  It's the people who practice the Christian 
religion.

Do u know who controls both major parties?  People who practice the 
Christian religion.  Howard is a religious nutter and the new boy who's 
running the Labor party is a religious nutter.  Any imbecile who thinks the 
Labor party will fix anything, is a complete and utter fool!

I'd really appreciate it if Labor supporters wouldn't post on a green site.

frank brown

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anne Goddard" <anne at globalclimatechangeaction.org>
To: <ClimateChangeAction at yahoogroups.com.au>; 
<Oz-envirolink at altnews.com.au>; <green-global at lists.altnews.com.au>; 
<green-activist at lists.altnews.com.au>
Cc: <bro at c031.aone.net.au>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 4:18 PM
Subject: [Green-Activist] Re: [ClimateChangeAction] Some campaign 
strategysuggestions re climate change


>i really like the idea of an "April Fuels" day...
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Anne Goddard
> To: Group 1
> Cc: bro at c031.aone.net.au
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 9:43 AM
> Subject: [ClimateChangeAction] Some campaign strategy suggestions re 
> climate
> change
>
>
> Hiya Members :-)
> I have invited "Bro" to join the CCA group.
> Some campaign strategy suggestions re climate change
> Posted by: "Bro" bro at c031.aone.net.au
> via "greenleap"
> Mon Dec 4, 2006 8:18 pm (PST)
> John Howard is (unless I have had a seniors' moment) the first serious
> Australian politician since Sir Charles Court thirty years ago to run
> nuclear reactors (not to mention the whole damn fuel cycle) up his flag
> pole.
>
> Court the Elder used to speak of WA as the world's energy farm. Peter
> Costello spruiks our involvement in the G20 in terms "Energy our freeway 
> to
> the future" (The Age, lead story 18 November).
>
> Meanwhile almost 7000 people have voted in the current Yahoo web poll 
> "What
> is the most important issue under discussion at the current APEC summit?"
> with the following result from a choice of four answers: Climate Change 
> 59%:
> Iraq 19%; Economic Development 18%; Undecided 4%.
>
> For the people climate change is the issue: for the Government it's
> consuming ever more energy with a bit of highly-vexed 
> pollution-ameliorating
> expensive, yet-to-be demonstrated technology.
>
> And the Sunday Times (19/11) reports:
>
> 'With the caucus aghast at Mr Beazley's latest verbal stumble, it will be
> badly buffeted by the latest Ipsos-Mackay poll to be broadcast on Channel
> 10's Meet the Press this morning.
>
> The survey shows that 60 per cent of Australians think the issue of 
> climate
> change will play an important part in how they vote at the next election.
>
> While 24 per cent believed the Greens would be the best party federally to
> handle global warming, they were closely followed by the Coalition on 23 
> per
> cent.
>
> Remarkably, Labor trailed both parties, on 19 per cent.
>
> The results will be deeply unsettling for many federal Labor MPs who 
> already
> have a question mark over Mr Beazley's performance.
>
> The recurring complaint from his internal critics is that he fails to 
> ``cut
> through'' to voters with the Opposition's message.
>
> The Ipsos-Mackay poll will simply confirm that impression, especially 
> since
> John Howard has widely been seen to have been wrong-footed on climate 
> change
> since the publication three weeks ago of the British Government-sponsored
> Stern Report.
>
> The report concluded that Earth faced catastrophic consequences unless
> climate change was confronted. Mr Howard has been a self-confessed 
> ``climate
> change sceptic'' and has refused to sign up to the Kyoto Protocol. "
>
> Speaking to mainly young people at the Make Poverty History Concert on 
> 17/11
> Tim Costello said (of course, it's not news other than he said it about 
> him
> for, I believe, the first time):
>
> "I do have a brother. That brother, along with both sides of politics, has
> failed to see with the same moral clarity what your generation gets This 
> is
> how politicians govern: they wet their finger, they put it up to the air 
> and
> they say which way is the wind blowing."
>
> I've been banging on now for 6 months about the next federal election, and
> particularly the long lead up to it, being a once in a lifetime 
> opportunity
> to blow the winds of sustainability with frostbite-inducing force over the
> wet fingers of our political leaders. The hooks being ever-increasing 
> public
> concern over the impacts of climate change and the capture of the
> Government's (and, led by Ferguson and Fitzgibbon, a proportion of the
> Opposition's) agenda by the carbonucleophiles ("carbon dioxide - we call 
> it
> the stuff of life!").
>
> 1 April 2007 falls on a Sunday.
>
> Noting the success of the recent Walk Against Warming, as part of an
> escalating campaign for a real, anti-nuclear response to climate change
> significant nationwide actions on "April Fuels" day seem to me to be 
> worthy
> of contemplation and organisation.
>
> I shrink from showing my age by raising memories of 1977 or even using the
> term "mobilisation" (or looking ahead to 6 August 2007) for what might be
> contemplated and organised.
>
> I would be grateful to receive any views that people may have on these
> Sunday morning musings.
>
> Cheers, bro
>
> Dr Bro Sheffield-Brotherton B.Sc.(Hons), Ph.D, Dip.Ed, MEIANZ
> Chairman, Sustainable Solutions Pty Ltd
> Scientific Advisor, National Toxics Network
> Honorary Life Member, Australian Conservation Foundation
> Member, Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand
> 47 Prentice Street
> Elsternwick 3185
> AUSTRALIA
> Ph: +613 9528 1957, Mob: +614 1230 3 718
> Fax: +613 9528 5100
> Email: bro at c031.aone.net.au
>
> "The ultimate measure of people is not where they stand in moments of
> comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and
> controversy." - Dr Martin Luther King Jr
>
> "The danger is when you get old like us you may become soonical." - Dagmar
> Schroeder
>
>
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