Nature abhors a vacuum.
Julia Gillard reckons the reason she knifed Kevin was that he didn’t have a vision for the future of the country.
And she does.
So, she’s pushing the carbon tax thing.
Good on her.
She’s doing something positive. Actions speak louder than words. Which is a good thing, because the words aren’t saying much. And that, I believe, is the trouble she’s facing.
Not the introduction of the tax.
But the silence from her side.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
In the absence of information, people will make up their own.
No wonder Hey Abbott is winning the polls. He’s the only one saying anything about the issue. Even if it’s all negative. People have been elected on less.
Why can’t someone from her government say, “Charging people more will help them choose to use less.”
We need to reduce carbon emissions. We had a go at doing it ourselves.
We failed.
Time for a little external convincement.
I won’t like having to rearrange the habits of my life.
But I’ll do it.
Because it may just make things easier for my kids.
And aren’t Australians always banging on about how clever we are.
If it’s too hard to get comfortable using carbon emitting products, my gut feel is that some bright spark will invent a way of getting comfortable in some other way.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Julia’s trouble, I reckon, is that it seems like a complicated issue.
An issue that will need clever solutions
From clever people. So any answer needs to be swathed in clever talk – to show how clever the people are who are talking. As a result, the people doing the talking are falling into the shithole of bureaucratic quasi-intellectualism, trying to prove how clever they are when we don’t give a rats about them.
All that means is we end up not listening. Because it sounds too hard.
Here’s the secret.
Talking about it won’t get it fixed.
It’s not that complicated.
Use less of stuff that’s rooting the weather.
Say it Julia.
Or we’ll assume there’s nothing inside the policy – or your government.
And, like nature, we’ll find another way of filling that space.
