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Re:Coral makes comeback on Great Barrier Reef by threeseed on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:43AM (#32352574)
Greens have little credibility when it comes to the environment. Instead of comprising and getting an emissions trading system passed they were stubborn and Australia ended up with a decade of inaction. For me that's inexcusable and the damage it caused was immense.

The legislated 43% target is largely symbolic and is a floor not a ceiling. It is not by itself going to change anything. What will change things are concrete steps like our Environment Minister stating that she will stop the Palmer coal mine from going ahead.

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Re:Coral makes comeback on Great Barrier Reef by boffinAudio on Friday August 05, 2022 @04:22AM (#32353216)
The Greens are not your enemy in this fight, the Liberal and Labor parties are - as demonstrated by their decades of long-standing policies which resulted in this mess in the first place.

The Green party certainly have their issues - subjugation and subversion most of all - but to lump the damage on the Greens is an inexcusable farce.

Until Australians realize that their political system is beholden to Big Coal, nothing will change. Australia has a long history, as a nation, of being run by the corporations that provide food to the populace, and Big Coal know this better than most, with their billion-dollar social engineering programs.

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Re:Coral makes comeback on Great Barrier Reef by pvaldes on Friday August 05, 2022 @06:56AM (#32354317)
> Greens have little credibility when it comes to the environment.

Hum, compared to whom?

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Re:Coral makes comeback on Great Barrier Reef by threeseed on Friday August 05, 2022 @07:05AM (#32354399)
Credibility is not a competition nor is it defined in relation to others.

It is legitimate to be critical of the position they took as well as the other parties.

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Re:Coral makes comeback on Great Barrier Reef by pvaldes on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:08AM (#32355562)
If you must choose from a limited pool of options, yes, how the others behave matter.
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