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On 2020/08/04 more than two thousand tonnes of ammonium nitrate
exploded causing colossal damage to Beirut's port area and killing at least 200 people.
What has this to do with the Morrison Government and climate change? The ammonium nitrate had been stored in a warehouse in the port of Beirut for six years in spite of the knowledge that it presented a risk of just such an enormous explosion. It was a disaster waiting to happen and was being ignored by the Lebanese government. Climate change is a developing disaster that will impact billions of people and practically all life on earth, and, similarly to the Beirut case, it is not being given urgent attention by the world's governments. The Morrison Government is even more culpable than the Lebanese authorities because it is making the situation worse by supporting the fossil fuel industries and resisting the introduction of renewable energy. While the Lebanese government were guilty of gross carelessness, the Morrison government is guilty of actively exacerbating the problem. The Lebanese government was guilty of a crime of omission, the Morrison government is guilty of a crime of commission. (Several other Australian federal governments were just as bad in this way, especially the Abbott government.) |
A part of one of Australia's wind farms
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Wattle Point Wind Farm, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia We must change to renewable energy like this if our children and their children are to have a planet that is not greatly damaged by climate change. |
Why did the Beirut blast result in almost universal condemnation
There seem to be several main reasons:
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