British readers of Global Dashboard may think the headline is a description of Britain’s relationship with the US. But you would be wrong. Kevin Rudd, the new Australian Prime Minister has apparently brought shame to the billabongs and indignity to the ‘bush capital’ with his mock salute to the US President. This may be the greatest storm-in-a-tea-cup moment since John Lewis (a department store in the UK) stopped selling their own brand starch but to an Australian electorate that was promised they would no longer be subservient to the world’s only remaining supower it is a slap in the face or as the aussies like to say a snag short of a barbie…
Let’s make climate a culture war!
If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad? No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...
