I've said before that Peter Garrett is an embarrassment as a minister in my opinion and that he is simply a sycophantic yes man following party line without a clue about anything environmental in real terms, and I stand by that.
The burning of fossil fuels has to be the biggest downside of mans foray into the modern society that it is today as far as impact on this planet we live on, the continued reliance on a depleting finite resource that is damaging in its removal and then doubly damaging it its processing and eventual use is the greatest success and greatest failure at the same time.
All that being said we can make the choice to do something about it on a daily basis, reducing the amount of fuel we use, using consumables with less packaging and limiting the amount of travel we do, all things that a government suggests to the people in the community to lessen the impact of climate change.
So you have to ask yourself why would the minister for the environment be spending $226,010 on travel, burning vast quantities of aviation fuel, going around the world, when a Skype hook up could achieve the same result?
Simple, Garrett is enjoying one of the perks of being a minister, free world tours at the taxpayers expense, holidays around the world for free.
The Government will claim that he went to some conference or did some government business while he was there of course and he will most likely trot out the old line that it is expected that we attend these things, which is BS.
Garrett is a fraud, spouting lines from old songs about how the people should do without, make sacrifices to help reduce carbon emissions and at the same time he's burning so much carbon on world trips that we're effectively going backwards and not achieving any reduction at all.
Garrett should rethink his globetrotting ways, he should practice as he preaches, he should be an example for reduction of carbon emissions, he should be a shining light to the rest of the community about how we can reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and do business world wide without wasting both money and resources.
If Garrett can't do this he should resign, and let someone who can be real, effective and set an example as a warrior for climate change.
In my opinion Garrett is a Fraud for the environment.
4 comments:
What a shame Peter is so useless, and that he and penny Wong just follow the party line.
Since the greens are almost just a branch of labor, why don't they get some help with policy?
Far from being a fraud, peter garrett is wotking to gather ideas and information from accross the world to make this country a better and more environmentally freindly place to live in. You should be ashamed of yourself for trying to besmirch a renowned activist and an awarded environmentalist who has succeeded in bringing awareness to the youth of today due to his popularity.
The problem for Garrett always was that even his demeanour on stage was always an alter ego, even if his lyrical muse as a member of Midnight Oil was idealistic for all the right reasons. What Garrett has found out is that his political aqaintances are not making any distinction between Peter Garrett and the lead singer of Midnight Oil. Effectively as a politician, he is being cut off from the very idealism that subconsciously he once conveyed
in musical form but for obvious reasons of protocol is no longer able to do as a career politician. He may as well be walking around blindfolded in parliament in one hand tied behind his back. Idealism does not equal pragmatism.
I think the last commentor has hit the nail on the head and summed up the Garrett situation quite susinctly. Garrett is a Labor puppet now, he doesn't have the ability to make his own decisions or do ro say anything without the approval of the party.
I don't think the whole environment/save the planet theme that the Oils used was really anything much more than marketing, don't get me wrong they guys obviously felt that there were issues to be addressed as we all do , but is garrett solely driven by that train of thought , I don't think so, I think the huge bucks and the free OS trips are what drives him. Garrett is just a political stooge.
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