The Federal Labor Party wants to abandon responsibility on environmental matters, at the dictates of the Business Council of Australia, while Nature continues to give its payback answers.  An unprecedented hundreds of bush fires respond to the dryness, heat and wind on the east coast of Australia. Its payback time for Nature.

Australia is burning, and the Telegraph / Australian online news includes a map of the fire spots, plus poster picture of Tony Abbott in his bush fire fighting costume, but not a word to be said in the media about climate change. Perhaps it is too obvious, but it avoids the whole don't go there question of Australian gross carbon emissions, and who profits from them.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/attacking-before-the-battle-heats-up/story-e6frg6n6-1226550736363

Manual Garcia Jnr, gives a fine summary of our human predicament, in much better words and ideas than any Australian Journo.,

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/09/the-hottest-year-keeps-getting-hotter/

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It may be that the time to “do something about it” is now here (even past due), and that such action as a positive and cooperative national effort (in each of many nations) would be a far better use of our political energies than to dissipate them in an interminable sequence of enervating factional squabbles driven by narrow self-interest and the evasion of civic responsibility.

Our great psychological barrier to facing the problem of climate change is that we know it is a reflection of our technological use, misuse and waste of mined energy, which we can call industrialization; and that our many national forms of industrialization are each reflections cast in hardware, processes, systems and bureaucracies of our dominating ideologies of economic development; and these ideologies, finally, are rooted in that stratum of irrationality in human consciousness called tribalism.

So, it’s either “time’s up, go extinct,” or “evolve into something that will survive in the new environment.” The capacity for specie-wide enduring cooperative behavior to stop the anthropogenic input to climate change would be an evolutionary advancement of humanity that would necessarily overcome tribalism, overturn existing ideologies and economics, and revolutionize industrialization and how humans extract energy from Nature to ease their toil and activate human society.

Can such an evolutionary step for our entire species be prompted by the uncoordinated volunteerism of individual ecowarriors sensitive to the future and agitating as they can, trying to expand public consciousness? Logically, it seems improbable; irrationally, I certainly hope so.

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The Business Council of Australia thinks it is the dominating ideology of economic development, and wants to expand its Coal mining vested interests, at any environmental cost. If it has its way, in fifty years time, Australia, will look like a hot charred, pitted piece of dead burnt toast, surrounded by dead oceans. Its time to stop voting for these ideological overlords, and their sycophantic political climate dead - heads.