Posted by Sigismund on June 14, 2008, at 16:31:40
In reply to These campaigns, posted by fayeroe on June 14, 2008, at 14:26:06
Rudd won against Howard with a strategy of politeness and elevated moral tone. This must have been neccessary to avoid some kind of wedge, in our case something broadly along the lines of 'How can you trust the ALP to run the ocountry when they don't know how to behave properly?' So when Obama says 'What you will not see in this campaign is (I forget what he said now)' it makes perfect sense from here.
I think the landscape has already changed and there is a widespread understanding that the utopian projects of the past few years are quite beside the point when it comes to dealing with the problems we face, one of which will be regearing the economy to use less carbon. Itis a pity the last 10 years have been wasted when they could have been used to plan the transition. Considering the scale of the challenge and the consequences of getting it wrong, it is astonishing that so little has been done. (There is an Australian physics professor currently building a solar electricity plant, using fields of mirrors, I think, in California because he could not do it here.)
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