So I presume all of you know that the EPA has finally come out and admitted that yes, um, global warming is in fact real.<\/p>\n
They’ve added a prediction that the earth will heat up by 10 deg F over the next hundred years.<\/p>\n
I was listening to the Midnight Oil song ‘beds are burning’. I’m going to cite the lyrics, just in case my readers, like me, don’t actually know them.<\/p>\n
\nOut where the river broke
\nThe bloodwood and the desert oak
\nHolden wrecks and boiling diesels
\nSteam in forty five degrees
\nThe time has come
\nTo say fair’s fair
\nTo pay the rent
\nTo pay our share <\/p>\n
The time has come
\nA fact’s a fact
\nIt belongs to them
\nLet’s give it back <\/p>\n
How can we dance when our earth is turning
\nHow do we sleep while our beds are burning
\nFour wheels scare the cockatoos
\nFrom Kintore East to Yuendemu
\nThe western desert lives and breathes
\nIn forty five degrees
\n<\/i><\/p>\n
Let me put this as plainly as I can. The australian desert – home to some of the most unique life on earth – doesn’t have the headroom for global warming. It’s just not there. Things are already just about as hot as they can be (45 degrees C!).<\/p>\n
If you drive a gas car, you are a party to the extinction of hundreds of species. You’re killing them, with your hands, every time you turn the key forward. _there is another option_. bush & the automakers won’t tell you about it, because they really want you to keep burning oil, but electric vehicles are perfectly practical commuter machines.<\/p>\n
Once again, if we follow the path we’re currently on, the outback will die.<\/p>\n
Have you ever been there? Do you know what you’ll be killing?<\/p>\n
Can you in good concionce load the gun, aim it, and pull the trigger? Apparently we all can..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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