Letters to the editor, The Daily Advertiser, November 5, 2021

Also much spruiking of the value of these cameras from the powers that be.

Having not heard about any increase in crashes while the cameras were inactive it seems to me that the evidence is pointing to them being a waste of time and drivers' money.

There is a much bigger crisis facing the world and our future than COVID-19.

Leaders and experts from around the world are meeting in Glasgow to face this very crisis.

The actions they decide on for the next eight years leading up to 2030 will determine the very existence of life on this planet.

Unless global emissions are drastically reduced in the next eight years there is no future.

Once a course of action is determined and agreed upon then it is up to every country in the world to play their part for our survival.

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"I can't do it anymore."

These are the words of farmer Sophie Love's husband as he leaves their farm after years of struggling under the multiple blows of climate change events - fires, floods, crippling drought and water shortage; destructive storms and rising insurance premiums.

"You would think the climate crisis was some sort of joke" she writes "when you see the game playing of the government. We are living the reality of climate change every day. They are playing with our lives."

Game playing is a polite description of the farce we have witnessed as the Libs and Nats arm wrestled each other in order to produce the bagful of hot air and horse feathers Morrison has taken to COP26; Joyce babbling about "protecting " farmers as his government gives the nod to yet more mining and fracking to ruin yet more farmland and water sources.

There is no "plan". Just the same old pretence of one they have peddled for the last nine years.

No modelling, no legislation and rubbish about carbon capture and storage, an unproven and expensive technology that has captured only 0.4 per cent of emissions worldwide.

Farmers are doing all they can to adapt to climate events. They are being betrayed by the most deceitful government this country has ever had.

Morrison has come back from Glasgow trailing behind him what's left of our tattered international reputation.

There will be consequences. Too many to detail here.

The EU is already sharpening its knives to cut into our future exports with border tariffs. The US and UK likely to follow in the wake of Morrison's snake oil presentation in Glasgow.

In a recent ABC documentary, Big Money, a farmer fighting to stop gas frackers from devastating his land, says: "The fossil fuel lobbyists have immediate access to government.

We have to wait months to be heard. By then it's too late. Anyone who thinks this government works for us all is living in fairyland."

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