‘Climate change isn’t going away’: New NT Greens MLA blasts CLP for scrapping climate change portfolio
Newly elected NT Greens Member for Nightcliff Kat McNamara has criticised the CLP Government for dro
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Climate change is a hoax, like covid
Climate Change?
Climate Change?
This clueless lady was not voted in because of climate change!
What are you doing to address the rampant Crime in once-sought-after Nightcliff?
What are you doing to address cost of living issues?
What are you doing to address the very poor medical services in the NT?
What are you doing to address the difficulty small business has in attracting workers?
Did becoming a accidental MLA just get real for you ?
This clown is so concerned about climate change!! A recent trip down south and see the miles of scars along the hill tops to put in wind towers, hectares of good grazing or cropping land cleared to put in solar panels and we are all supposed to be climate activists. I trust this never comes to the Territory, let gas be eternal.
She has one policy, l’m glad Fyles is gone but this dill is no improvement
I’m relieved that a common-sense person like Kat Macnamara is in there fighting for the Territory’s future.
Along with Justine Davis, Yingiya Guyula and the four conscientious indigenous Bush Labor MLAs, Kat will represent the social and environmental concerns of her constituents. None of these admirable people will be afraid to counter the reactionary politics of the CLP. And – believe me, this dangerous elitism will get worse, much worse, before we chuck them out again.
Some of the new CLP MLAs also have the potential to fight for the basic rights of everyone in the NT – not just those who already have too much and who constantly mouth on about ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’ and ‘cost of living’ without questioning the ethics and poor conditions of so many of these ‘jobs’ and the migrant visa-holders with no choice but to live and work where we never would.
Admittedly, I question whether I’d rather see the countryside ‘littered’ with wind turbines and massive solar farms than keeping them forested or with healthy natural environments. To prevent such upheaval, we all have to live more in harmony with our climate and environment. We have to do without airconditioners – some of the time, at least. We have to get rid of a lot of our electronic and electric gadgets that we don’t really need. We also have to recognise that the ‘new, improved’ electric vehicles and their batteries are not readily recycleable or able to be remanufactured.
More than anything else, we have to recognise that our white dominating society – dependent on a Western linear economy – is still colonising and exploiting people around this and other ‘less-developed’ nations of the world so we can live in comfort and get fat on our greed.
I don’t envy progressive politicians working to change our selfish, reactionary worldview. To work together for a more humane and ecologically-sound future for our kids, grand-kids and the natural environment we depend on will mean r-evolution not re-form.