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Australia: QLD floods: don’t mention climate change (or the number of ‘tiny’ emissions from coal)
Posted by Crikey: None Given on January 20th, 2011
Crikey: Journalist Graham Readfearn writes: As the floods in Queensland and Victoria gushed through homes, businesses and streets leaving tragedy behind, all of that murky water and grime sent moral compasses and other measures of taste and decency spinning and cavorting in all directions.
What outrages you, or anyone else, depends on which way your moral, political or ideological compass tends to point. Talking about building dams or the role of climate change while people are suffering could enrage...