Adam Bandt on the bushfire crisis: The Prime Minister fiddled while his country burned
“I grieve. I grieve for the immeasurable complexity of what we have lost in these months of endless fire: the lives, the love and the ecology that may never come back. But I am charged with a determination.
While most MPs stood up in parliament this week to give thoughts and prayers to bushfire victims, not one Liberal or Labor MP had the guts to call out the major corporations responsible. For decades these fossil fuel giants have known the harm that extracting and burning coal, oil and gas does, heating our planet.
Yet, as our country continues to burn, our Prime Minister signs our souls away with new arrangements that will stick a syringe into the ground in New South Wales and draw out gas that we cannot afford to burn. The bushfires have taught him nothing.
My pledge to everyone who has been affected by this summer and spring is that I will do everything that I can to stop these coal fuelled fires, these gas powered infernos and these oil fuelled flames from ravaging our country every summer.”
– Adam Bandt MP, Leader of the Australian Greens, 6 February 2020
Complete transcript available at:
https://adam-bandt.greensmps.org.au/articles/bushfire-crisis-prime-minister-fiddled-while-his-country-burned
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