The answer is here now! 

Australia’s politicians have had 30 years of information and a chance to turn around the impending catastrophe as other countries commit. The Libs and Nats, blinkered conservatives, have varied from obfuscation to outright denial.

Labor, has tiptoed through the science without the backbone to enforce the necessary change or the skill to explain it. Why?

They are frightened by electoral ignorance. A percentage of ill-read voters react to any scare tactic that suggests a rise in power bills.

Tony Abbott, two-dimensional man, was a master at appealing to the uninformed.

Remember his child-like, repetitive mantra, “a great big new tax on everything” (repeated a thousand times). Great carbonated heavens, kindergarten speech, this man was prime minister.

Recently, I came upon a Nationals politician in Bellingen. I asked her, “do you believe in climate change?” 

Suspecting it might be better to curtail the conversation in the positive, she answered, “yes”. Pressed further, with the science, I asked, “do you realise that Urunga will be under water?” 

What followed was the dim light of misunderstanding that conservatives have on global warming and science in general. Her face relaxed into a quizzical smile, she fell into a condescending tone as if lecturing a child. “Ooh, that's ridiculous”.

Her flawed logic? Climate change exists, but there will be no consequences.

Lady, you have not been paying attention. 

Despite thousands of peer-reviewed studies concluding that climate change is real, the conservatives are in denial, they twist the facts. They are saying we have an energy problem, they devalue the crisis.

2016 was the hottest year worldwide on record, January and February this year are through the ceiling. 

Other developed countries are taking huge steps with alternative energy, citizens are backing, even leading, their governments.

The sight of a blood-red Barnaby Joyce brandishing a lump of coal as the answer in Parliament, marks us as pariahs in an overheated world.

Thinking people don’t deserve the dregs we have in elected office. They deserve to be fought and obstructed at every level.