Australia’s Prime Minister looks forward to the apocalypse
This is the welcome every incompetent climate-denying Murdoch quisling should get across the Anglosphere. Good on the people of Cobargo for telling the Prime Minister of Australia what they think of him. https://t.co/bzUaz376DE— Wesley Clark (@WesClarkjr) January 2, 2020
Prime Minister Morrison does not believe that climate change is causing any of Australia’s climate problems. He wants to increase the use of fossil fuels, especially coal. He says “prosperity” is the pressing issue of the day, not climate. Apparently, he sees Australia literally rising from the ashes.
Apparently Morrison is a lot like Trump but for different reasons. He won on an harsh anti-immigrant platform they called “Operation Sovereign Borders” in which they used the military to detain child refugees.
But unlike Trump he is a fundamentalist Pentacostal. This article in the Australian Monthly goes into it and it’s creepy:
Why would someone who followed the teachings of Jesus want to stop asylum seekers from attending a family funeral? How could a committed Christian keep children locked up while helping his daughter leave a present for detained kids under the church Christmas tree? These were legitimate questions, but the common answer that Morrison was a hypocrite was almost certainly wrong. Given how Pentecostal Christianity understands evil, it is much more likely that Morrison’s conviction came from the fact that he genuinely believed that the military deployment and harsh punishments for these unauthorised arrivals were the will of God. The likelihood is that, for Morrison, Operation Sovereign Borders was not just like a “war”, it was one. Faith was not being put to one side in favour of political self-interest but was being rigorously upheld.
Belief in Satan and the imminent return of Christ also helps explain the prime minister’s less-than-passionate response to the most pressing environmental issue of our time. It is not surprising that Pentecostal activism about climate change is non-existent – the end of the known world is not a matter for mere mortals to decide. When Morrison proudly showed off a piece of coal in parliament, there is no reason to doubt that he believed what he held in his hand was a gift from God.
It is also likely that Morrison has a level of skepticism about empirical science in general. One of the core doctrines of the ACC is that “all original life forms, including humanity, were made by the specific immediate creative acts of God … and that all biological changes which have occurred since creation are limited to variation within species”. In other words, humans and other animals were created by God in their essential form. If Morrison does not believe this, it should be easy enough to say so.
That also explains why some conservative Christians in America accept Donald Trump. If it were me, I would probably think he was the anti-Christ but they seem to take him at face value as being God’s chosen one.
Whatever the motives of the two leaders or their supporters, whether they want to bring on the apocalypse or put as much money into their own pockets as possible, the end result is the same: total resistance to urgently addressing the climate crisis. And it’s going to kill us.
If the people don’t get serious and use the power they have in these western democracies (before it’s taken away) to elect serious people we won’t make it.