The last time I saw parrots
There are just so many layers of irony to this story, that I don't know where to stop peeling. The Federal Government has nixed a planned windfarm in the Labor state of Victoria, on the grounds that it would pose a threat to the habitat of the highly endangered orange-bellied parrot. The Federal Minister responsible, Ian Campbell, is depressingly susceptible to Kyoto flim flam, but he deserves a Logie for his straight face in announcing the cancellation of a $220 million project for the sake of a population of parrots estimated at no more than 200.
The Age, for whom every kind of environmental study has hitherto been holy writ, has suddenly discovered a newfound scepticism towards them, wonder of wonders. They now realize that 'environment' can be cynically used as a smokescreen for political manouvering. And they don't think windfarms themselves are a political ploy?
Spare a thought for the poor greenies, whose heads must be exploding, like the archetypal evil robot, whose CPU housing starts to smoke and spark when he is defeated by having two contradictory instructions programmed into him: Parrots good! Windfarms good! Windfarms bad for parrots! Coalition bad! Coalition defends parrots! Parrots..er..good..er..arrgghhHHH!!
There are just so many layers of irony to this story, that I don't know where to stop peeling. The Federal Government has nixed a planned windfarm in the Labor state of Victoria, on the grounds that it would pose a threat to the habitat of the highly endangered orange-bellied parrot. The Federal Minister responsible, Ian Campbell, is depressingly susceptible to Kyoto flim flam, but he deserves a Logie for his straight face in announcing the cancellation of a $220 million project for the sake of a population of parrots estimated at no more than 200.
The Age, for whom every kind of environmental study has hitherto been holy writ, has suddenly discovered a newfound scepticism towards them, wonder of wonders. They now realize that 'environment' can be cynically used as a smokescreen for political manouvering. And they don't think windfarms themselves are a political ploy?
Spare a thought for the poor greenies, whose heads must be exploding, like the archetypal evil robot, whose CPU housing starts to smoke and spark when he is defeated by having two contradictory instructions programmed into him: Parrots good! Windfarms good! Windfarms bad for parrots! Coalition bad! Coalition defends parrots! Parrots..er..good..er..arrgghhHHH!!
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