I saw the ABC’s latest Gab-fest the other night and Christine Milne came across as just as much away with the fairies as Bob Brown comes across as a sanctimonious old wowser.
Christine Milne, away with the fairies
Why not use the money set aside for cash compensation to roll out energy-saving measures? Why not insulate every home, install solar water heating and reduce energy bills by more than emissions trading will raise them? That would be providing permanent compensation, while improving the effectiveness of the program instead of undermining it. As they say, “Give someone a fish, you feed them for a day; teach them to fish and you feed them for life.”
Why not drop this shameful bullshit emissions trading scheme in the first place?
That would be far more sensible because it will not under any circumstances make one scrap of difference. But on Christine ‘s particulars
- insulate every home sounds fine in principle but the facts of the mater are that for most of the year in most parts of the country our climate is rather mild and insulation while desirable is probably already in the majority of houses that really need it.
- Not every house is suitable for solar hot water and in winter electricity is still needed to boost them.
You can get the same win-win outcomes by investing in a huge expansion of mass transit across metropolitan and regional areas instead of cutting fuel excise. Instead of locking people into a future with ever-increasing oil prices, we would help them get out of their cars.
What is it with these troglodyte Greens and mass transit?
Their brains are forever locked into planet Latte. The reality is that we don’t all work in offices or factories where we all start and finish work at the same times, nor are all of our workplaces centrally located so that we can all make the journey on the bus/tram/train/ bike. I bet Milne does not try to struggle home from the shops with 15 grocery bags on the bloody bus. Nor does she care about the couple of hours each day wasted commuting from our homes to workplaces. If she was serious about saving the energy expended by commuting in person she would be advocating making working form home an option for more people especially those who spend their days at a desk in front of a screen.
Instead of propping up a coal sector our planet cannot sustain, why not retrain the workforce for the new green-collar jobs we desperately need, helping the roll-out of insulation, solar, wind and geothermal energy, buses and trains? We need to support workers but the corporations who have profited from polluting deserve no more compensation than the asbestos and tobacco industries.
I just detest this kind naive thinking because it gives the impression that miners that she would see unemployed, in say, central Queensland will automatically be miraculously re-employed fitting pink batts and solar hot water systems in Melbourne or Hobart or to drive the buses and trains that she has wet dreams about.
Note too the attempt to make comparisons between Tobacco, asbestos and coal, typical warminist tactic that one. 🙄
This idea of in-kind compensation has been ridiculed as politically unrealistic by Canberra insiders steeped in the Howard culture of defeatism and short-term populism. But everyone I speak to around the country thinks it makes perfect sense. All it would take is some courageous leadership and it would be warmly embraced by a great majority.
This is the joy of being the member of the potty Green party you will never have to actually deliver on any of your policies so those ideas can be as silly as you like . This compensation in kind mantra so reminds me of the soup choices in 1984 but then the Greens are such a mob of sanctimonious totalitarians that they would be right at home drinking Victory Gin and loving big brother…
Cheers Comrades 🙂
All Quotes from the SMH piece by Christine Milne
Iain Hall's SANDPIT 
Iain, this is superb. This installment has everything you want in an Iain Hall post. Lots of name-called and cliches (e.g. “planet Latte”, “troglodyte Greens”), degradation of dissenting views, appeals to altruism, hysterical references to Nineteen Eighty-Four and, of course, many more grammatical errors than evidence. And coming on top of the previous post where you couldn’t defend your similarly ludicrous claims (which isn’t surprising, since you just stole them from Bolt, and he can’t defend them either.)
Keep it up Iain, it’s the best laugh I have all day.
Hear Hear!
Oh, and I forgot to mention the rather ordinary Photoshopped picture!
Mark
I have not commented in the previous thread because Halfwise was doing a damn fine job with out any help from me at all.
so? from the man who has consistently dissed may car, and by extension, myself is a weak response. but so what If I chose to use a bit of sarcasm. Do you want me to go through your posts and find all of the same sins you attack me for ,it won’t be hard.
Since when has that been a crime ? 🙄
Altruism is some thing that I actively support and advocate and so to do mosty of your pals from the left
Nah, they were entirely calm and ironic references and my grammar is just fine
When dealing with the thoughts of a moonbat like Christine Milne you don’t need much evidence to demolish her arguments
And coming on top of the previous post where you couldn’t defend your similarly ludicrous claims (which isn’t surprising, since you just stole them from Bolt, and he can’t defend them either.)
The very last post was not “stolen from Bolt” although it was certainly in praise of his post that I cited and correctly attributed.
Sounds like the embarrassed laughter of someone who is starting to think that on climate change you have got it wrong.
Lets see you do better with photo shop mark 🙄
so? from the man who has consistently dissed may car, and by extension, myself is a weak response.
Say what? I think I’ve mentioned it twice. And is your car really an extension of yourself? You must be a medical curiosity.
but so what If I chose to use a bit of sarcasm.
That’s your answer to everything Iain… “I was using sarcasm”, as though it makes everything A-OK.
Do you want me to go through your posts and find all of the same sins you attack me for ,it won’t be hard.
Why not? You certainly have the time.
Lets see you do better with photo shop mark
I don’t own a copy of Photoshop, which is about $600 a hit, and I refuse to use pirated software. In any case, I have a family and a job, so sticking other people’s heads on odd backgrounds to make a corny political point is very very low on my to-do list.
As I said before you have become rather bitter and twisted of late Mark , had a sense of humour bypass and I suspect that your life ain’t that happy at present…
We are discussing the greens sarcasm is not only OK it is absolutely mandatory 🙄 .
That sounds like you are jealous that I have more leisure time than you do Mark 😆
To be strictly accurate when I use the term “photo shop” I am using it in the generic sense and not referring to a software package by Adobe But I bet that you, like most people do have similar photo software on your PC because such programs even come with digital cameras these days, so like a lot of your excuses not having adobe soft ware is a cop out.
As I said before you have become rather bitter and twisted of late Mark , had a sense of humour bypass and I suspect that your life ain’t that happy at present…
Go ahead and suspect all you want, Iain, it wouldn’t be the first time you’ve gone out on a limb and been totally wrong.
That sounds like you are jealous that I have more leisure time than you do Mark
So does my cousin the dole-bludger, but I’m hardly jealous of him – or you.
To be strictly accurate when I use the term “photo shop” I am using it in the generic sense and not referring to a software package by Adobe But I bet that you, like most people do have similar photo software on your PC because such programs even come with digital cameras these days, so like a lot of your excuses not having adobe soft ware is a cop out.
What’s “soft wear”, is that like a woolly cardigan or something? No, it’s not a question of ‘can’t’ but of ‘won’t’, frankly I put crude Photoshopping on a par with drawing silly pictures of teacher in the back row of grade 6 Maths.
Iain, love your work, what software package do you actually use?
It’s called Paint shop pro and I am far from am expert but thanks for the kind words anyway
It’s called Paint shop pro and I am far from am expert but thanks for the kind words anyway
Iain,
I’ll have to hand it to you on the PSP skills – the dancing Rudd cat was somehow mesmerising, almost hypnotic in fact!!!