Ranting, Out gassing and being fracked off

Are the floods caused by global warming?
Are the fires caused by global warming?
Isn't it interesting how quickly shit hits the fan.
The floods wiped out citrus groves, piggeries, beef farms, grain growers. Not to mention millions of dollars worth of infrastructure in the affected regions.
What will happen to the cost of food?
The cost of Insurance?
With billions of dollars worth of infrastructure in regions susceptible to floods and fires wheres the money going to come from to fix or move these necessary buildings, roads, airports, hospitals, schools?
It's time the mining tax incorporated the full cost of the products they peddle.
Isn't it time we stopped buying crap and invested in our own homes and communities. Solar and wind power are logical power sources for the future.
Growing your own food for yourself and the community you live in is a logical choice.
Becoming a banker, stockbroker, investment analyst or mining executive makes you part of the problem.
We have all the knowledge, capabilities and financial ability to transform our nation into a world leader in a sustainable future.
Why don't we do it?
Because our leaders keep pandering to the corporations that peddle the products that are destroying our living environment.
Out of all the corporations I can think of none sell a 100% ethical or sustainable product.
Solution: Don't buy their products. Of course we need computers, we just don't need to upgrade every 12 months. Of course we need clothes. Buy locally made or better still make your own or buy second hand.
By the way I'm as guilty as anyone of occasional overconsumption.
Did you know that the water off WA's coast was so unusually warm lately that tasmanian fisherman reported catching fish never seen that far south before.
The permafrost is melting so fast that scientists now doubt we will avoid an irreversible feedback loop.
Land clearing in the amazon shows no sign of abating
We cut down untouched forests in Borneo to grow palm oil, to fry food in, make cosmetics and generally make things we could easily do without.
Farmers in India are committing suicide at ever increasing rates because companies such as Monsanto patent their seeds and force them to go deep into debt to grow crops that need spraying and have ever decreasing strike rates.
Farms in the States are reporting the proliferation of superweeds in farming areas as a result of using round up ready seeds to grow crops.
Nature supplied us with a brilliant way to grow food we just forgot to listen.
Companies such as Red Bull spend billions promoting a product that offers absolutely no benefit to mankind yet the founder is seen as a business genius. Go Figure
Walmart pays its full time workers below the poverty line and threatens dismissal if they complain. Yet millions of people shop there.
Have a Great day
Russ