This short text excerpt and photo are quoted verbatim from The Guardian, 17 November 2013:
"Today, tens of thousands of people around Australia rallied for action on climate change.
The rallies were organised by a coalition of environmental and social advocacy groups, including the Australian Conservation Foundation, the United Firefighters Union, and Get Up, in protest to the Abbott government's moves to scrap the carbon price, abolish the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, cut funding for the CSIRO, ignoring the Climate Change Authority on carbon pollution emissions, and much more besides.
This week, federal parliament sat. We finally were able to see the shape of the Abbott-led Liberal-National government. The extent of their climate denialism is becoming more evident.
It seems that Abbott is intent on turning Australia into a charco-state — a nation that pursues economic riches from coal, gas and other fossil fuels no matter the social or environmental cost. A charco-state is the coal equivalent of a petro-state, a country where the economy is dominated by oil interests and where the government is both highly dependent on oil tax revenues and deeply infiltrated by oil-industry interests.
Australia is at risk of becoming a charco-state. Here are five warning signs" [...]
1. Ignoring the Climate Change Authority's recommendation on carbon pollution reductions
2. Australia "missing in action" at COP Warsaw climate negotiations
3. Starving Australia's renewable energy industries
4. Handing over environmental powers to the states
5. Demonising climate action as "socialism"
Short text excerpt and photo quoted verbatim from The Guardian, 17 November 2013:
Read entire article here:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2013/nov/17/tony-abbott-climate-denier-coal-socialism
Related YouTube clip shared by GetUp Australia: http://youtu.be/kIOKHYxnTB0
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