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Bush fires, Australia and climate change : Comments

By Charles Essery, published 2/1/2020

Climate change has reached cult status and with the lemming-like adoration of characters like Greta et al, backburning is judged only to increase CO2 and therefore to be outcast.

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Hey AyameTan,

"Hopefully, your children will eat YOU."

- I think you may benefit from a mental health check.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Thursday, 16 January 2020 9:53:14 PM
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Armchair, I think you need to try this poor boy's schedule for a month. See how you hold up.

Please record how many hours of sleep you get each night.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-tiger-mom-defends-harsh-schedule-for-son_1983580.html
Posted by AyameTan, Thursday, 16 January 2020 11:35:31 PM
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AyameTam,
I can only speak from the perspective of living within Australia for over six decades, but I have witnessed first and second hand good and bad. I read relatively widely and seek out information beyond the banal media sources.
Global perspectives show that without a capitalist economy, societies stagnate. It is only when there is reward for effort that societies advance. All of the major advances in medicine, technology, engineering, quality and quantity of life and social welfare have come from within capitalist systems.
No person with any moral value can admire AlQueda. Those AlQueda agents who flew those four airliners into buildings and grounds on the 11th of September 2001 were not and are not "martyrs", they were murderers. They intentionally killed over two thousand innocent people who had no connection with the "enemy" as identified by those murderers.
Please reconsider the fact that you are able to engage in a free dialogue here on this forum is thanks to us living in a democracy that is maintained from a capitalist philosophy.
Posted by Jay Cee Ess, Friday, 17 January 2020 10:41:41 AM
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If you think capitalism is good on balance, you need to rethink your priorities.

Why is economic growth at all costs a good thing?

I'd rather be poor and happy, with enough leisure time, than rich and working 60 hours a week.

If ISIS and Al Qaeda targeted LNP conventions exclusively, the world would be a better place.

I'm NOT advocating violence. I'm just stating a fact.
Posted by AyameTan, Friday, 17 January 2020 11:07:41 AM
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AyameTan,
No, in your penultimate sentence, you are most definitely advocating violence.
It may surprise you that there are many millions of Australians who do not work 60 hours a week and yet on many metrics are very well off financially and quite happy with their lifestyle.
At no stage have I postulated that we must seek economic growth at all costs. Moderated economic growth can benefit all within that economy as it is only with growth that that society can provide services such as healthcare, education, transport infrastructure, welfare and internal and external security.
Posted by Jay Cee Ess, Friday, 17 January 2020 11:56:10 AM
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Armchair, I think you need to try this poor boy's schedule for a month. See how you hold up.

Please record how many hours of sleep you get each night.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-tiger-mom-defends-harsh-schedule-for-son_1983580.html

Do you know who Florence Nightingale was? Medicine advanced leaps and bounds. I don't think anyone would accuse her of being a capitalist.

You didn't postulate economic growth at all costs explicitly, but you implied it. What do you think capitalism is?
Posted by AyameTan, Friday, 17 January 2020 2:48:05 PM
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