Open Letter to Greg Hunt, Australian Minister for the Environment, re horrendous coal-linked deaths:
https://sites.google.com/site/gideonpolyawriting/2015-11-12 .
Dear Mr Hunt,
Australia’s new, MP-elected, Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull is charming, intelligent, well-mannered and articulate and is the darling of the endlessly lying, US-dominated Australian Mainstream media, but is “lipstick on a pig” in being cravenly and opportunistically bound to the same US lackey, pro-Apartheid, pro-war, anti-Indigenous, genocidal, ethnocidal, war criminal, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-fossil fuels, ecocidal, speciescidal, terracidal, anti-science, anti-environment, climate criminal, human rights–abusing and child-abusing policies of the Coalition Government lead by his politically assassinated predecessor, former popularly elected but nevertheless unpopular Coalition PM Tony Abbott.
Of over 200 catalogued and documented reasons why Australia should dump PM Malcolm Turnbull, the most cogent from a global perspective is his ignorant, blind, incompetent and dangerous commitment to the long-term extraction and burning of coal and other fossil fuels. Global warming from greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution currently kills about 0.5 million people annually but 10 billion will die avoidably this century in a worsening climate genocide if man-made climate change is not requisitely addressed.
For a safe planet for all people and all species climate change experts urge return of our common atmosphere to 300 ppm CO2 from the present dangerous and damaging 400 ppm CO2 - but bipartisan Lib-Lab (Coalition and Labor Right) policy is for an increase in CO2 via unlimited Australian coal, gas and iron ore exports that will see Australia exceed by a factor of three (3) the whole world’s Terminal Carbon Budget of 600 Gt CO2-e that must not be exceeded if we are to have a 75% chance of avoiding a catastrophic plus 2C temperature rise (Australia’s Domestic GHG pollution is so high that Australia exceeded its fair share of this Terminal Carbon Budget in 2013 and its Domestic plus Exported GHG pollution is so high that it exceeded its fair share in 2011).
It gets worse. The World Health Organization (WHO) informs that 7 million people die from air pollution each year, with this including 10,000 Australians and 75,000 people dying from the effects of pollutants from the burning of Australia’s world-leading coal exports. The Turnbull Coalition Government has approved ecocidal coal mining in Australia by Shenhua and Adani that will eventually kill 2,000 and 13,000 people each year, respectively. The present burning of Australian coal sold globally by Coalition–backed BHP Billiton kills 13,000 people each year. The burning of all the coal sold globally annually by Coalition–backed Shenhua kills 132,000 people each year.
By way of topical comparison in terror hysteric Australia, zero (0) Australians have ever been killed in Australia by a Muslim-origin non-state terrorist organization, and the barbarous ISIS and the equally barbarous US Alliance (including an Australia presently engaged in its Seventh Iraq War and Third Syrian War in 100 years) are together presently killing about 12,000 Iraqis each year in the Iraqi Civil War. Under the pro-coal Turnbull Coalition Government Australia is a world leader in annual per capita GHG pollution and in climate change inaction. Decent Australians who would utterly abhor mass murder for private profit (cf corporate-linked Auschwitz) will utterly reject the pro-coal, climate criminal Lib-Labs (Liberal-Laborals, Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.
Yours sincerely, Dr Gideon Polya (300.org; [contact details] ).
Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm .
2015-11-2 Open Letter to ABC re major corrections required after Emma Alberici interview with Chief Scientist appointee Dr Alan Finkel”, Gideon Polya Writing: https://sites.google.com/site/gideonpolyawriting/2015-11-2 .
“2011 climate change course”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/2011-climate-change-course .
“Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ .
“300.org – return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm CO2”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org---return-atmosphere-co2-to-300-ppm .
Gideon Polya, “Australia 's Huge Coal, Gas & Iron Ore Exports Threaten Planet”, Countercurrents, 15 May 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya150512.htm .
“Carbon Debt Carbon Credit”: https://sites.google.com/site/carbondebtcarboncredit/ .
“Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths .