Al Gore evokes different responses
I was delighted to see that Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Commission for Climate Change have shared the Nobel Prize.
Hopefully people will listen to this and accept the urgent need for us to change our behaviour and our emissions.
However in the very same week an English judge ruled that Al Gore’s film, The Inconvenient Truth contained untruths and exaggerations. Wow, a law degree would certainly equip him well to decide that – NOT!
In South Australia, where I live there was an absolute classic from a Judge in the Environment and Resources Court. The Conservation Council were taking the tuna farmers to court to try to prevent that industry from continuing. The history being that poor environmental practices, wrong location and a severe storm in the early days of the industry combined to cause a huge fish kill. The farmers learned from the experience and cleaned up their act, the government learned and allowed them to move to a more suitable location but there was still a serious lack of trust from conservation groups. The classic comment from the Judge was to rule inadmissible, government scientific video footage of the seabed under the cages because it was “meaningless” – it only showed the sandy seabed. That was the whole meaning in fact. The seabed was just sandy seabed and it was not covered with the piles of debris and waste that the Judge “knew” must there. This is the true meaning of prejudice
A law degree does not bestow infallibility on the recipient and judges, like all of us, need to move out of our comfort zones and accept that change happens.
It is time for all of us to move out of our comfort zones now and accept that the gases in our atmosphere are changing and we much change our behaviour urgently before it gets completely out of control and leaves appalling problems for our children and grandchildren.
Most of the tuna farms in Australia have ISO 14001 environmental certification and this is a well run industry.
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