Funny old weather lately

AFTER last Tuesday’s (February 13) appalling weather, and the widespread damage and destruction around Victoria I had the thought that now, finally, the naysayers in the community will accept that climate change is a scientific fact and that unless we change our ways significantly, these severe weather events can become the norm.

I am tired of hearing the ignorant comments from people who glean their misinformation from their personalised phone algorithm or their equally ignorant right wing self-interested political representatives carping on with their toxic unfounded theories on climate change.

If you think that buying a gennie and stocking up COVID style on tinned food is all you need to do, then we are truly up that proverbial creek.

A friend, who works at one of the local supermarkets, was part of a team throwing out all the meat, chicken, fish, frozen food and dairy products into a huge dumpster bin after the power outage.

During the disgusting process of chucking out hundreds and hundreds of kilograms of food, the person next to him sneered and said, ‘this will show those xxxx’n greenies!’

The mere fact that someone could somehow blame or connect a movement that is trying to salvage what is left of our forests and clean up the terminal mess that is now our environment with Tuesday’s violent weather event, just beggars belief.

It’s probably too late now anyway, and it will give no one any pleasure to view the destruction of our planet and say we told you so. The earth is now like the Titanic, sailing gently on towards the climate change iceberg.

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