Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Guardian has accused Aussie Prime Minister Scott Morrison of “not wanting to engage”, after he beat a hasty retreat when charged by “Fight for Planet A” host Craig Reucassel carrying a large bunch of black balloons.
Fight for Planet A: the team behind War on Waste want to put climate crisis back on the agenda
Host Craig Reucassel uses balloons to give Australia’s emissions a visual representation and we’re left in no doubt there are too many of them
Brigid Delaney @BrigidWD
Tue 11 Aug 2020 13.39 AESTThere’s a scene in Fight for Planet A that is both absurd and thrilling. The host, Craig Reucassel, has tracked down the prime minister, Scott Morrison, at an event at a Sydney beach. A pile of black balloons representing Australia’s carbon emissions have been attached to the back of his shirt and as he runs down the beach chasing Morrison, one really does wonder if he’ll just lift off and float away. The prime minister’s minders stop Reucassel before he can tackle the prime minister who, in bare feet and boardshorts, is walking away as quick as you can in soft sand. But the metaphor is obvious: Morrison does not want to engage with Australia’s outsized emissions problem.
Over three episodes, the team that made the ABC’s highly successful War on Waste delve into the more abstract but urgent issue of carbon emissions, and with it a vital question: how do you convince Australians that something they cannot see represents their greatest existential threat?
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“No one knew how long the pandemic would last, how serious it would be, how it would change people’s psychology. It’s still bad, but to some extent, with the exception of the situation in Melbourne, we have come to terms with it,” he says.
And although global lockdowns have caused emissions to plummet, it is long-term behaviour and policy change that will make a difference in the long term. So how do we make that happen?
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/aug/11/fight-for-planet-a-the-team-behind-war-on-waste-want-to-put-climate-crisis-back-on-the-agenda
I am no fan of Scott Morrison, but in an age when terrorist violence is an ever present threat, why would anyone in their right mind want to “engage” with an unbalanced looking shouty person charging at them holding a large bunch of black balloons?
Judge for yourself, the trailer below contains a short clip of the stunt.
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So the warmunists are reduced to stunts. What a surprise.
It is reported that soldiers in the Australian Army carry a standard issue 9mm Mark 3 semi-automatic pistol. Special Forces units prefer the Heckler & Koch USP with 18 rounds of 9mm.
If your PM Scott and a couple of the SF were carrying, they could have popped all those balloons and had a few rounds left over to aerate Craig Reucassel.
Is it legal to say this? In the USA? On an Aussie blog?
By any stretch of the imagination the person nominated as Scott Morrison is nonsense. Obviously female and dressed in a manner I have never seen him in. Presented by an ex-comedian and like all things from the ABC a joke. Please don’t spread their lies. These days I only see things from the ABC are clips like this I do not watch any of it. They do great damage to our nation and I would like them to be sold.
Shouldn’t he have used clear balloons considering CO2 is an odourless & colourless gas?
Oh that’s right! CO2 is the black, nasty stuff in an eco warrior’s mind!
Let’s not forget Reucassel was one of the team sued by journalist, Chris Kenny for defamation.
The tired old gimmick of black floating balloons with CO2 printed on them. Idiot!
PM was right to retreat from this ambush … if you get down with the pigs, you’re sure to get mud on you.
A frivolous and wasteful use of helium, a scarce resource better used in hospital MRI scanners.
Don’t bust ’em, black-balloon-lives matter.
Look carefully at the trailer from Fight for Planet A and the labelled cut from this. The trailer has no labels. Compare photos of Scott Morrison from, say, the Instagram site, with the photo of the person running away. I cannot say that it is a girl, but it is definitely NOT Scott. Scott has very little hair, and it would be best described as ‘nearly silver’. The person running away has plenty of hair, it is black, and it ends in something which I think we would have called a ‘DA’ haircut.
The person lifting up the rope to duck under it and chase the ‘ecoloon’ is more likely to be Scott, hair nearly silver and wearing heavy glasses. I think Scott’s glasses are thin wire so I suggest that this is a guard who is chasing the ecoloon away. Scott would not run away from a young ecoloon – he would be ready to debate him and try to educate him.
Far left fantasy street theater… meh.
Suggest an appropriate response is “Oh! We gotta wise guy, eh?”, followed by a ‘pie to the face’ of the ‘artist’ and a couple of Curly (Three Stooges) “Nyuck Nyucks!”
If I were Morrison, I would have lured the charger to his doom, and unleashed the meanest of my minders onto him when he got close, taken him down.,,with extreme prejudice….and then off to be charged for a variety of offences and then done an interview breathing in the helium and mocking the fool with humorous voices and fun CO2 facts, like Einstein’s CO2 law that shows CO2 cannot exceed the immediate heat source and dissipates heat at the exact same rate as is applied. Therefore CO2 cannot force heating, a fact backed up by the Vostok Ice Core samples where it is shown unambiguously that a change in temp always precedes a change in CO2 atmospheric saturations. I think that would sound extremely humorous in a helium induced Elma Fudd voice. I would point out what Martin Feynman would have to say about the Climate Change models, and what the geologists would say about the massively high CO2 levels we have had in the past and that is seems a little odd to suggest we will have run away global warming from 410 PPM CO2 when we didn’t at levels of 8,000 PPM and more in he past.
I know I would find that utterly compelling viewing. I would record it for those days when I needed a laugh.
Oh well, we can but dream.