My thoughts on the Australian environmentalist movement

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Flannery is currently Australia's Climate Commissioner and five years ago he made some predictions. These were namely that the nation's dams would never be full again, they would need desalination plants to cater for water needs and other similar predictions. Flannery is not the only person to make such dire predictions, however given impressive academic credentials, people find it a bit surprising he of all people is making the sort of predictions that people considered “feral greenies” make. <Snip>....

I have found plenty of news reports of Tim Flannery's prediction in 2012 but cant find anything written in 2007 to support the idea that Flannery had said that dams would never be full again. I was hoping if you could give us a link to a report written in 2007.

Flannery's book The Weather Makers makes the predictions I am describing,

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You must remember that politicians Of ALL stripes are opportunists.

The "Environmentalist Movement" is dead and dying because, as you say, the politicisation of the issues. The Carbon tax won't help, nor will the MRRT to stop or curb this Climate change we are going through. Is it so surprising that people are waking up to this cash grab by the government?

And STILL nothing is being done about our pollution. Has anyone got any ideas how to clean up the North Pacific Garbage Patch??

Sorry mate but "Greenies" are dead in the water as a force now...... too much hyperbole and no substance or solutions.

The environmentalist movement in Australia is wounded, however I don't think it is dying. Although I would not blame this wounding on what you say politicization of the issues. However I would blame it them basing their positions on new age superstition as opposed to science. Australians have a tendency turn off from people who have strident religious views, this goes for those who are New Age as well as Christian.

The MRRT in some form (as a replacement for state mining royalties) was actually first proposed in the Henry Tax Review back in 2010, which overall I thought the best way to achieve much needed tax reform for Australia. The current Labor federal government thought this was a good idea and decided to introduce it (without replacing the state mining royalties). So it was not the Greens idea in the first place, however they did support it.