[Marxism] Victoria's bushfires: don't mention the 'c' word

[S. Artesian]

Really Stuart, you're too much, and in this case too little critical of your 
sources.  I'm duped by the corporate media, and you're what reproducing 
science?  Like the science below that you submit without comment or 
criticism?

" The climate change debate is usually carried out at a high level of 
abstraction, which makes it easier for ordinary  people and political 
leaders to treat it as a vague and distant threat. The heatwave and the 
fires should turn  abstraction into reality, just as 9/11 did for the threat 
of Islamic  terrorism."

Now that's not corporate media at all... linking climate change and "Islamic 
terrorism."  That's science.  Yep, and if it weren't for those damn "fossil 
fuel lobbyists," we would be able to deal Islamoterrorism and climate change 
a death blow in a single stroke.

Climate change exists.  It has enormous conseqences.  It is deadly... but 
this...  this pseudo-science panic-mongering is... exactly that.. panic 
mongering designed to serve a reactionary ideology.

Watch your bedfellows, comrade, they make for strange politics.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Munckton" <stuartmunckton at gmail.com>
To: <sartesian at earthlink.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:11 AM
Subject: [Marxism] Victoria's bushfires: don't mention the 'c' word


> http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20090209-Dont-talk-about-the-warming-.html
>
> Victoria's bushfires: Don't mention the c word
> Clive Hamilton writes:
>
>
>
> The climate change debate is usually carried out at a high level of
> abstraction, which makes it easier for ordinary
> people and political leaders to treat it as a vague and distant threat. 
> The
> heatwave and the fires should turn
> abstraction into reality, just as 9/11 did for the threat of Islamic
> terrorism.