Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Already too late

It's already too late - far too late.

All you had to do was watch and listen to "Four Corners" last Monday to understand that we are royally stuffed.

Our incompetent Local and State and Territory and Federal Governments have over allocated the national water resources for decades. Not one person - especially not a water or natural resources minister - in all the state and federal parliaments up til now have given a rats rectum about the health of the Murray / Darling basin and were bothered enough about the environment to think long term. Not one Virginia.

"The irrigators want more water so they can grow more cotton and rice and dope" - no worries the dimwits said. We'll let someone else deal with the consequences later.

Every one of those retired water and natural resource ministers in every State and Territory should be stripped of their entitlements - full stop. No debate necessary. And go after the assets of all the dead ones too.

Because now we are paying an enormous price. Not only is the river system in dire straights but the irrigators have become militant - and some of them are burning books for christ sake. Apparently they think its *their* water!

We are seeing the same *short term*, *head in the sand*, *dimwitted*, *self centred* thinking about a range of environmental matters - not least "Climate Change".

Why do we still have these ministers and their bureaucrats with their fancy titles and big white cars and loads of departmental resources and monster budgets if the dimwits don't use them properly? Seriously?

And how on earth did the nation end up in this situation? And what are we going to do about it?

Nothing obviously.

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