We can no longer allow incompetent leaders to destroy our future
Time for humanity to rid itself of leaders incapable of facing reality.
50 years ago, the Club of Rome released its seminal report “The Limits to Growth”.
It’s message, warning humanity that endless growth cannot continue on a finite planet, was ignored then, as it is today.
The result is the sad reality that Europe is embroiled in a potentially catastrophic war in Ukraine, the IPCC today released its most damning indictment yet on the failure of climate leadership, in its AR6 WG11 report, and the East Coast of Australia is inundated with absolutely unprecedented climate-related floods.
We can no longer allow incompetent leaders to destroy our future.
We can no longer afford political systems, corporate, financial and military vested interests, here or globally, which waste our resources on secondary issues and cannot face reality.
How many more disasters are required before we get rid of these people?
50 years ago, the Club of Rome released its seminal report “The Limits to Growth”.
It’s message, warning humanity that endless growth cannot continue on a finite planet, was ignored then, as it is today.
The result is the sad reality that Europe is embroiled in a potentially catastrophic war in Ukraine, the IPCC today released its most damning indictment yet on the failure of climate leadership, in its AR6 WG11 report, and the East Coast of Australia is inundated with absolutely unprecedented climate-related floods.
We can no longer allow incompetent leaders to destroy our future.
We can no longer afford political systems, corporate, financial and military vested interests, here or globally, which waste our resources on secondary issues and cannot face reality.
How many more disasters are required before we get rid of these people?
Politics and the Public Service
Remember when Prime Minister Morrison harangued public service leaders in 2019 with his insistence that henceforth Government Ministers and their advisers would determine policy, and the public service were just there to implement the result?
That is not working out too well. The Government has deliberately refused to recognise the really critical issues confronting the country, particularly climate change. Instead, obsessed with ideology and short-term electoral grandstanding, it continues to irresponsibly beat up the supposed China threat, further demonstrating its complete lack of any strategic worldview and absence of diplomatic insight.
So when real disasters arrive, as with the current climate-related floods, our political leaders, Federal and State, sit like rabbits paralysed in the headlights, completely unprepared, not knowing what to do. And not a political adviser to be seen, apart from those organising the photo ops.
The public service, having been continually emasculated year upon year, are unable to react as they did with disasters in earlier years like the 1974 Cyclone Tracy in Darwin.
Governments have been warned repeatedly for three decades that these events were coming, but have chosen to ignore the warnings in preference to shoring up their financial support from the fossil fuel industry, conservative media and other vested interests.
An absolute failure of leadership.
We need a complete re-assessment of our approach to government and political leadership if we are to survive the threat that climate change and related issues now represent. This is far more important than bellicose sabre-rattling about “national security”
Ian Dunlop
Club of Rome