Well, the Aussies are bailing out on this, much to the (highly entertaining) rage and despair of the loony left there. The left-wing PM promised to cut Australia’s carbon emissions by 25% when he was running, but after considering what that would do to the economy, he’s had second thoughts. The outraged cries and moans from the comrades Down Under (linked to by Tim Blair) are pure comedy gold:
Yet again I am ashamed to be Australian.”
“We are doomed by these targets – I just hope Heather Ridout and the coal lobby are the first to suffer from the climate change catastrophe. Money and jobs don’t matter when you are starving and can’t breathe – wake up and get real – stop murdering us.”
“A tragic day for our world …”
“I’m sorry for my (and everyone else’s) children.”
“The patient planet is gravely ill, why mete out the remedy and wait till the moment of death to act?”
“This is one of the saddest days of my life as an Australian.”
“What will happen to our children …”
“I am ashamed to be Australian, and ashamed of Rudd for his fatal procrastination.”
“Kevin you have failed your mother, planet Earth.DO IT OR WE DIE.”
SMH reader Ian makes the standard leftist threat:
“I’m moving to europe and changing my nationality to anything else.”
Maybe he’ll move to Germany. And the finest missive of them all comes from bewildering Brendan Wynter:
“Most people who are worried about climate change have pets. A lot of the climate change skeptics also have pets. I have not pets.”
Blair left out a few of my favorites, including “Ask a polar bear if his habitat isn’t threatened.” Sure, be my guest, ask him. Better yet, offer yourself to him as lunch – he’ll be quite satisfied with his habitat then.
I can only hope that Obama also wakes up, discovers reality and plays Judas,sending Boris and all our other credulous bunny huggers into a similiarly amusing frenzy.
