How NOT to talk about fixing climate change

Too often people in the Green is Good movement curl up in a defensive crouch when discussing jobs and climate change with conservatives. Seems the conservative line whenever any kind of change is suggested, is that it will cost money and jobs and the poor workers and tax payers are the ones who will be adversely affected. They say, let’s not do that, let’s save money and jobs but what they’re admitting is that they’re on the hook for funding as well as writing down their obsolete infrastructures.

In the recent Australian elections, the winning conservative candidate Prime Minister Scott Morrison,made mincemeat of his opponent, a green candidate from the Labor Party, Bill Shorten. Morrison made the contest a choice of jobs and a healthy economy vs. doing reasonable things about climate. All this despite the fact that, as an article in the New York Timesreported happened, “…in a country devastated by drought, heat waves, brush fires and the loss of its magnificent Great Barrier Reef to warming seas.”

How did this happen? How could it happen? Simply put the Greens thought they had a logical argument what with all the climate chaos around them. They didn’t think of arming themselves with information or consider the emotional side of losing a home to fire or the Great Barrier Reef. It was a big mistake and sadly, it is a recurrent theme. But it doesn’t have to be. The Green movement could start by educating itself rather than drafting behind catchy slogans, including the Green New Deal, whatever that is.