How dare Peter Dutton and others turn climate change into a political football to kick around, trying to score points and sway voters (“ Battle lines drawn: Dutton ditches emissions target ” June 12). This issue is bigger than politics and the most urgent if the environment, plant and animal species and, ultimately, the human race are to survive. We need everyone pulling their weight to meet if not surpass the targets set by world leaders.
Yet we have people still not willing to work with each other to slow global warming. Perhaps the Coalition needs to reassess its leadership, as I can’t believe the party as a whole can ethically and morally put their interests ahead of the life of our planet. Margaret Grove, Concord The Dutton-led opposition repeatedly wrings its hands at the cost of living and yet proposes the most expensive option of nuclear power which would take decades to deliver.
Now that’s reassuring for the financially stressed. In rejecting the 2030 emissions target Australia agreed to in Paris we are now told that we will have to wait until the next election before being given Dutton’s vision and solution. What contempt for the electorate.
Credible political opposition goes beyond just saying no. It has the responsibility of providing a reasoned alternative in a timely manner. Murray Patchett, Kentucky The Coalition’s climate strategy yet again is to sow confusion and misinformation.
It is all bluster and boasting while maximising wriggle room and the .
