Today there was a serious bushfire event - obviously unrelated to climate change.
When I wrote this article - I was sitting in a cafe in Port Lincoln after having had a robust conversation with some of the folks that I mentioned in the article. They shall remain nameless to protect the innocent - and me.
"No - climate change is not apparent to us they said - and if it were then we would know about it and be onto it".
"Absolutely not - they said. Climate change is a beat-up by the Rudd government all designed to impose a massive new tax on us poor unsuspecting country folk - they said".
"Look - they said - all we want is to be able to get on with our lives and run our businesses without any interference from Canberra - they said".
"We farmers create the real wealth in this nation - and all the Rudd government wants to do is tax us to death - and they invent things like climate change and emission trading schemes to try to justify what they are doing. But we can see through that - they said".
I wonder if they will be expressing similar views when they front up for the relief money that they will be expecting from the "Federal Government".
And you lot wonder why I am such a cynic.
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The worst thing you could do is talk to the farmers, they have systematically destroyed this fragile nation to the point where they maintain their high lifestyle on the back of government handouts. Certainly climate change is the least of their worries, well behind plans to continue to kid the Australian people that we desperately need their exports even though they are a shrinking proportion of GDP and the worst conservators of this land to boot.
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