Guest essay by Eric Worrall
More green jingoism – President Macron of France is apparently now leader of the global climate effort, but for some reason Macron doesn’t qualify as enough of a climate leader to make it to the title of the article.
Climate change is World War III, and we are leaderless
By David Shearman
Posted Tue at 5:05am“World War III is well and truly underway. And we are losing,” writes environmental activist Bill McKibben, so when Malcolm Turnbull implied that the insurgency that demolished his government was based on climate ideology, what lessons are there for Scott Morrison?
As a child in Britain during WWII, I lived in a street of mothers and children. Every father was away fighting. Each house and garden was surrounded by a metal palisade fence.
One morning the fences were gone, mother was delighted. Then a horse and cart came and took away every metal cooking pot and pan, some treasured, but mother smiled at her sacrifice. It was difficult for me to understand.
She had responded to the call from Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, for the women of Britain to: “Give us your aluminium. … We will turn your pots and pans into Spitfires and Hurricanes.”
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Britain was a united and cohesive community. Young and old worked daily in small ways for the common cause. But most importantly, in the free world, two countries — Britain and the US — had leaders in Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt who could explain the need for duty and sacrifice.
Their like is yet to emerge today, and indeed the Western world is bereft, perhaps apart from French President Emmanuel Macron, who explained to Congress and the American people that secure borders are irrelevant to this threat, and all of us are world citizens needing to act in concert. “There is no Planet B,” he said.
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Dr David Shearman is the honorary secretary of Doctors for the Environment Australia and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Adelaide University.
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-28/climate-change-is-world-war-3-and-we-are-leaderless/10168962
Poor President Macron – he has made such an effort to be a global climate leader, abusing President Trump’s hospitality by strutting his stuff in front of the US Congress, offering US climate funding refugees seven figure grants to emigrate to France, yet the author David Shearman doesn’t think Macron rates a mention until the eighth paragraph.
Need to exercise my phraseology. What was the official approved by the party form, “Dear Leader”, “Great Leader”, “Beloved Leader” ?
C’mon Kim, it’s your department, give me a hint already…
Leaderless? What about that guy who’s a former politician turned investment banker? You know… the guy who lost an election, almost had a nervous breakdown, and then made tens of millions by lobbying the government on behalf of an investment fund?
How many people has AGW killed = zero
How many people has it hurt = zero.
We don’t need the little rugged chinned hero’s help.
Guy cannot stop 1000s of rapes and 100s of murders on his own streets by HIS own guests.
Just sayin for a friend.
How many people has the fight against AGW killed: 100’s of thousands, at a minimum.
Name one
Look up those who died in England the last few years because they couldn’t afford both food and heat.
Look up those who have died because they still have to use wood and dung to heat their homes and cook their food because people like you won’t let them have affordable reliable power.
LOL @ur momisugly MarkW, now you are blaming “poverty” on the fight against AGW? FYI, I use wood to heat my home. You really don’t understand “cause and effect” do you?
Policies that make energy costs skyrocket hurt the most vulnerable (the poor and elderly) the most. The key to prosperity is cheap, reliable energy. By denying developing countries that cheap, reliable energy you are preventing them from rising out of poverty.
President Micron is a small-minded man indeed.
Ah Marcon, married his pedophile, is creepily subservient to older women. I do wonder if his wife was not the first pedo he encountered
The US is such a horrible place that ‘climate scientists’ are leaving in droves for the green fields of grant giving in Farce. ( not a typo)
Spoken in the shadow and tradition of Obama and his own madness.
Okay so this was just appearance management after a cabinet resignation….
WSJ
PARIS—A key figure on the left of Emmanuel Macron’s governing coalition quit as environment minister Tuesday, exposing a rare fracture in the alliance and undercutting the French president’s efforts to calm leftist supporters restive over his pro-business agenda.
Nicolas Hulot, a hero of the left, environmental campaigner and former TV host, delivered a broadside to the Macron government by announcing his resignation during a live radio interview. Mr. Hulot said he hadn’t yet spoken with the president about his resignation, though he has been publicly flirting with the idea for months.
This is the same Macron that said in a speech recently in Denmark that there is no such as a real Dane or Frenchman. The same guy who during their election said there was such thing a French culture.
Who would take anything he said seriously?