Slowfix -a better paradigm?

All this talk about what we MUST do to save the earth is giving us ALL a headache . I'm in for taking a bex and not rushing into it , even though Bob brown may have only 3 years to finally come up with some concrete ideas on how to change people's behaviours . I sort of think he's not exactly the sort of person , with our PM who you would trust to be able to do that.     Do we really know who bullies are when they grow up ?


Lots of people feel the same about Julia and Bob Brown occupying the high moral ground on this issue - its surely requires lots of advice and consideration - not just a knife edge political situation . 


Surely we need to unpick what is happening here a bit more .


 The scene is certainly making people feel very ill.

Labels: sickness .moral high ground

Well I was wrong,(see last post)- most independants by this Saturday have come on board to say "great idea".
The idea of a tax is so simple that its appeal to most politicians is completely understandable .

What do the practical ones think of all this? Well they won't get a chance to disagree with faitdecomplee call at 5pm tonight.  Powerful symbol of a leader who doesn't lead in that very phone call- "what are you calling me for " i might say if I got one. No time for questions like the myriad that will invade their supercilious space afterwards like

Some BIG questions that won't be answered Sunday
1. "when will  we move to a trading scheme" or "you mean you have changed your mind again ?"  You mean " we are not moving back to a trading scheme?" For more reasons why ETS's don't work click here.
2. How come we included agriculture when other countries found it too hard? ( 2 main answers are possible - either we are very very clever, or we are moving where angels fear to tread ) We appear to be only going there because Tony wants to and he thinks its a good idea, with hangers on wanting to please the farmers" .the polys have their reasons- but none of them are very deep and none of them relate in context to ecomia
3. If $25 is only a token , haven't we had that before ( fuel excise)
4. How come you say this is a momentous decision when there is no guts to it -aimed at everyon therefore aimed at noone .At least the fuelexcise (and the 4WD rego) targeted the big wasters.
eoption of calling the problem" everything in the whole earth ie climate change")
5 Why are we doing all this when it won't do anything to stop the earth warming? And why did we ever allow you smart arses to rename the problem so you could get always be proved right action ( the mother of all problems - change which means , even if the earth  cools YOU are still right and YOU have our money!) 

SO MY Conclusion is for tommorow ( 10th July 2011) . It will be  day of celebartion for sure BUT a day of dumb and shallow tricks where THEY will be celebrating token efforts - a fine finale for a Sunday and a fanciful finish for a committee of real religious types.
  

Our PM hasn't run too many of these schools so far,  so it will be interesting to see how it goes . (Dday 10th July 2011)
Her biggest challenge,  it seems to me,   is how to keep the cats in the cradle - the kids seated and listening . It may look like those present have signed away their lives to something good, but will the wheelbarrow move once you try to push it down the road ?
My feeling is that the cats will jump ship early,  leaving the whole concrete mix to set in a spot where it's no earthly use - more paper and hot air to add to the pile .Group ambition is fine but group intention is illusory.


Unfortunately the only way to run Sunday School  is the old way . You can't have kids telling you on a consensus or even any other basis what goes down . Such approaches are just a mess; the very reason we need an educational revolution ?. All very well being Winsomeish ,  but best to leave that sort of airy fairness at home, even if its well intentioned.  If you gonna move onto  talk the tough "gunna do" stuff , you have to stick with inground realities . Everyone likes to have a Shot at agriculture and environment,  but those who think they know how to deal with its intricacies,  are often the worst because rural ecomia is complex.
You also can't have too many rules ( even 10 is enough and the new guy got it down to 2 ).   Sustainable Sunday School is about targeting the big bad issue, keeping it simple with targeted solutions and sticking to methods that address the key maladjustment principles consistently. Big handicap for her school is - They aren't even sure what's bad.   Keatings tax on 4wd 's was better targeted , more consistent and manageable than their policy will ever be on fuel . Maid Julia will need a Sheriff of Nottingham to collect it. Not sure where the merry men will go in the meantime.
Kids too aren't silly . She may have convinced Cabinet that the bad thing is something you can't see, but maybe they are used to that ?  If the unbelievers and skeptics are to believe with some faith in the new god and evil ,  the audience will always keep having doubts while you call evil ( pollution )good( sequestration ) Conviction and faith aren't built on shoe leather - they must start with the preacher being convincing and convicting about the nature of evil.

I know MPCCC think they are going to be simple ( a carbon price ) ( we agree - they are going to continue to be simple ) -- but  point is that they are not talking sense here --they are being too superficial with substance stuff .
Sustainable Sunday School  should be about values - simple values . The identification of suspect second rate options and how to recognise them should also be taught , but secondarily ;  Suspect second rate values are things like price. When values are the key,  you don't confuse the goal posts by taking a second rate guide .

Price can be a guide to value but it may not always be. Its certainly not the same thing for rich and poor. If the rich  pollute worst, you won't stop them with whatever  .... $ /tonne,   but you will crush the poor with a little .( CP  will start low.  My guess is 25 )  Marginal economic arguments are too complex for them so I guess they will ignore market realities and hope for the best. 25 / tonne sounds sort of inconsequential and I think they are hoping for something like that,  so they can all get relected ( fat chance of that eh!) rather than really move the earth , as they say they want to when they are selling the invites .
So, as soon as someone realises there is a lot of  unfairness in this hotschpotch attempt at moral correctness,  the priests will become targets for hypocrisy and inconsistency . Bob will no doubt know where reverse gear is and use it .  Like the right  of this world,  the left of this world , and the Greens,
 are about to land themselves in deep stuff - confusing value with price.
They all need to go back to SS and learn those lessons well . Once you correctly identify the bad thing ( always the hardest thing ) you must keep it simple stupid  and let the kids apply the truth to themselves, rather than try to tell everyone how they should behave .