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Yeah, good riddance!
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Yeah, good riddance!
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Would you please not post inflammatory political rhetoric to HN? We're trying for thoughtful discussion here. Obviously it's hard to have thoughtful discussion about urgent issues, but comments like what you're posting only make things worse.
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A good example of Poe's Law?
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#15Sadly I can't remember the last time we had any real action to protect the reef, and our current government is all too willing to put businesses above the environment.
Most of the damage is part of climate change in general, so real action to protect the reef involves the world drastically cutting carbon emissions. Meanwhile, we can't even prevent things like this happening right next to the reef:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-10/abbot-point-coal-termi...
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#17The sad fact is that even these devastating developments do not make us change systemically to the extent required to counterfeit them.
counteract?
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Would you please not post inflammatory political rhetoric to HN? We're trying for thoughtful discussion here. Obviously it's hard to have thoughtful discussion about urgent issues, but comments like what you're posting only make things worse.
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Your comments were obviously sarcastic, but that doesn't make them ok. It's the venting indignation part that doesn't help. HN is something of an ecosystem in its own right; there's no need to damage one in defence of another. Nothing good comes of it.
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>I really hate the environment. It doesn't really exist If only they could tow the reef outside of the environment... (Hat tip to John Clarke - RIP)
For those who haven't seen it, cyberferret is referring to this interview with an Australian government official about an environmental disaster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcU4t6zRAKg
Edit: Spoiler alert below... ;-)
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#20Sadly I can't remember the last time we had any real action to protect the reef, and our current government is all too willing to put businesses above the environment.
I don't think the average Australian cares, at least not enough for it to influence the way they act/vote.
Of course if you ask anyone on the street if they are in favor of protecting the reef they'd say yes, but when they see the price tag they would probably lose interest.