The debate over climate change shows politics and science are not in accord, say readers.
. Please include your home address and telephone number. No attachments, please include your letter in the body of the email.It is exceedingly frustrating that the politics around climate change in Australia are so disconnected from the science. The latest measure of atmospheric CO2 concentration from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii is 427ppm, compared with 315ppm when data collection began in 1958 .
The case also highlights that laws are too often engineered to protect the powerful, rather than to uphold what is right. To that extent, they hold no moral authority, and instead act to perpetuate and amplify the harms whistleblowers call out – from the corruption of local councils, to the failure of public institutions to hold governments of all stripes to account, all the way to extrajudicial slaughter in the name of national interest.
What he did was release a mass of secret documents, some of which incriminated the US government, and some of which could have put their intelligence sources in mortal danger. We don’t know how many people were exposed by these revelations. And on the ratings issue, if “only” 10,000 people watch a deeply complex and informative program and those 10,000 are in positions of influence and able to act on the information they receive, surely that is a greater measure of success than any other huge figure. rightly questions the Victorian government’s housing plan. Premier Jacinta Allan has said that the state “needs more than 2million additional homes by the 2050s”, but the wider implications seem unacknowledged.
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