I have to confess that last night I switched off the ABC's new show Q and A after the first few minutes of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's flat delivery when answering the first audience question.
I've promised myself that I will try to make it through next week's program when, hopefully, my tolerance for political whaffle is higher.
However, the QANDA webpage did deliver evidence of a few interesting questions for Mr. Rudd.
| Author | ConcernedScientist |
| Date/Time | 22 May 2008 2:04:19pm |
| Subject | >Re: What would you ask Kevin Rudd? |
Mr Rudd...
When it comes to Global Warming, it would appear to me that your government's first budget is 'rearranging the deck chairs whilst the Titanic is sinking'.
Ok - some passengers might deny the ship is sinking (the water used to be 4 metres below their cabin's port-hole, and now its gone up to 6 metres - so from their perspective the ship is rising!), but the scientific consensus is the HMAS Earth is sinking and we have to do something about it NOW!
So why are you making it MORE difficult for Australians to 'use our existing life-boats' like installing solar cells on their roofs ?
Why are you investing large sums of money in trying to develop a new super 'lifeboat' (so-called clean coal - which might not even float), when there are existing technologies available TODAY (like solar thermal, wind, geothermal, photovoltaic, etc )?
Why are you not putting in the same effort to fight Global Warming as you are to fighting inflation?
You said recently "Hi, my name is Kevin, and I'm here to help" - Didn't you really mean "... and I'm here to help the Coal Industry" ?
When it comes to Global Warming, it would appear to me that your government's first budget is 'rearranging the deck chairs whilst the Titanic is sinking'.
Ok - some passengers might deny the ship is sinking (the water used to be 4 metres below their cabin's port-hole, and now its gone up to 6 metres - so from their perspective the ship is rising!), but the scientific consensus is the HMAS Earth is sinking and we have to do something about it NOW!
So why are you making it MORE difficult for Australians to 'use our existing life-boats' like installing solar cells on their roofs ?
Why are you investing large sums of money in trying to develop a new super 'lifeboat' (so-called clean coal - which might not even float), when there are existing technologies available TODAY (like solar thermal, wind, geothermal, photovoltaic, etc )?
Why are you not putting in the same effort to fight Global Warming as you are to fighting inflation?
You said recently "Hi, my name is Kevin, and I'm here to help" - Didn't you really mean "... and I'm here to help the Coal Industry" ?
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