Maybe some people should strive to be the "worst polluters", writes Matt Thompson.
The Federal Department of Climate Change has released a list in which Australia’s most important producers are accused of being the worst polluters. If only Shakespeare were around to help respond to this situation.
Friends, Australians, Countrymen, lend me your ears!The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones.
So let it be with the productive men and women working for themselves and for our largest companies that make our comfortable standard of living possible. They stand accused today of being our worst polluters by a faceless bureaucracy, encouraged by an endless parade of environmentalist groups. (Environmentalism is honourable, so are they all, all honourable people).
The companies are listed according to how productive they are. The more they produce, the more they emit Carbon Dioxide. The Federal Department of Climate Change will now evaluate these companies by the list: the more productive the company, the worse they are, according to environmentalists. And environmentalists are honourable people.
Carbon Dioxide is an essential element of life; the more CO2 the more growth and life and agricultural productivity. Environmentalists and bureaucrats wish to restrict growth and prosperity, and governments are benevolent and environmentalists are honourable.
The biggest polluters on this list have all given more than generously to a wide range of programs to pay environmentalists and government departments. The more the productive companies pay, the more the environmentalists want. Environmentalists have fabricated data, broken laws, and threatened dissenters and honest scientists with their livelihoods and their lives in order to falsely demonstrate that being productive (emitting Carbon Dioxide) is pollution. However, environmentalism is honourable, and productivity is not.
Private landholders have excelled in caring for land while governments have stolen it from them through implementation of environmental policy. Yet governments are benevolent, and environmentalists have good intentions.
You all did love them once -- our mines, our farms, our refineries and foundries. What cause leads you to believe they are evil now? They are not the ones responsible for wasting billions of dollars worth of our natural resources based on a falsified theory. Our national wealth is the sum of what we produce; our industries want to produce more, while environmentalists want us to have less. Our industries carefully save and allocate resources to the most productive possibility, while environmentalists take wealth from the most productive and give it to people who produce nothing. Yet productive industries are evil, and environmentalists are honourable.
Oh judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason. Bear with me, for my heart lies with the “worst polluters” on your evil little list. And my earnest dream is that our children will learn to be even greater “polluters” than they.
Matt W. Thompson is an independent thinker, cattleman, and co-founder of the Coalition for Agricultural Productivity (www.capaustralia.net.au).
