Puzzle solved
I would like to thank John Perkins for his letter (BDN, 29/5).
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He has given me the answer to my puzzlement about why poor Tony Abbott is the way he is - he suffers from a mental illness, cognitive dissonance.
So, for Tony Abbott's and Australia's wellbeing, it would be a good idea that he be put away in a mental institution until he is better.
As our current institutions are overworked, maybe for his own comfort, we could send him offshore to the luxury detention centres that he has provided for the boat people he has stopped.
While we are at it, we maybe should send half the members of the Liberal Party who have the same disability?
Peter Nicholson
Yellow Pinch
Tangled web
Everyone should be aware of the UN bureaucracy’s tangled web of practiced deceit confronting us.
In December 2015, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will try again to persuade all nations to fight climate change, to enable it to transform the world economy based on its “computer modelled “settled science orthodoxy” - the wrong and unproven claim that man-made emissions of carbon dioxide (C02) will cause “catastrophic man-made global warming” unless the world acts immediately to mitigate it.
Basic realities yell “deceit!”
C02 - a trace greenhouse gas - totals about 0.04 per cent of all atmospheric molecules.
Nature produces 97 per cent of that 0.04 per cent - i.e. in every 85,800 molecules of air, just 33 are C02; 32 from nature, one man-made.
Without C02 in the atmosphere, plants cannot grow - so, no food for animals/humans.
The Indian Prime Minister and Chinese Premier at their meeting on May 15, 2015, in Beijing, asked wealthy countries to honour their commitment to provide $100billion per year by 2020 to developing countries, (recall President Obama and PM Rudd at Copenhagen 2009).
Will Australia agree and contribute to this deceit?
And at what cost?
Eurobodalla Council is already committed, at our cost.
“There is no doubt that our earth is warming…or that humankind is the cause” (ALP Leader Bill Shorten July 14, 2014).
“No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change” (President Obama January 20, 2015).
“Who is going to bear the burden? For the past 150 years when C02 was pumped into the atmosphere, while the western world developed countries grew, industrialised, gave homes and jobs to people. They have good lifestyle, a good high per capita income whereas we are struggling at the bottom of the pyramid…I cannot tell poor people in my country that what happened in the past 150 years is now his responsibility” (India’s Energy Minister Piyush Goyal May 23, 2015).
Will the western world’s good lifestyle survive?
Neville Hughes
Surf Beach