Attacking The Environment

An article in the Spring Imagine showed how Canada's government has silenced environmental science to suit its own ideology. The Australian government is up to the same game. One day after Tony Abbot became Prime Minister, Tim Flannery, a world- renowned scientist and writer, lost his job on the country's climate commission. Since then, the government has gutted the country's carbon tax, put the Clean Energy Finance Corporation on its hit list, approved development on The Great Barrier Reef's World Heritage Area, and killed the portfolio of science minister for the first time since it was created in 1931. Even the web site of the Climate Commission and its three years of useful information were taken down. It is obvious that little or nothing is being done or will be done to avert climate change disaster. John Ayers.