Letter

In response to Roundtable warning: When they say ‘modelling’ grab your bulldust detector

You don’t need a bulldust detector, Ross...

You don’t need a bulldust detector, Ross; a reality check would give the same result. Any economic modelling that doesn’t factor the impact of climate change is delusional. The almost seasonal floods and coral bleaching across tropical Queensland threaten the economic viability of that region’s tourism, agriculture, aquaculture and horticulture industries.

The South Australian algal bloom, now in its sixth month, has destroyed the commercial and recreational fisheries, along with the marine aquaculture industry of that state. Tasmanian salmon farms, along with the rest of the aquaculture sector is struggling with increasing water acidification and temperatures. On land, droughts and flooding rains threaten the viability of our agriculture, horticulture and viticulture sectors.

It’s more than bewildering that our thought processes have discounted the very thing that has brought us to this stage of our evolution, it’s downright dysfunctional. We are a direct product of the climatic stability of the Holocene. Without it our 21st century lifestyle doesn’t hold up and its economy collapses. Although, as far as the Canberra Roundtable is concerned, that probably won’t happen before the end of the current three-year cycle.

John Mosig from Kew, Victoria, 3101