Letter
Greenhouse gas pollution and climate change
I’d like to thank the author of the article for the work that he does in this space.
When referring to climate change, emissions, net zero and the like, may I suggest that we always add the cause: greenhouse gas (GSG) pollution. We need to emphasise these problems are caused by pollution.
The key word is pollution.
It is shocking that when National Party and Liberal Party politicians say they are abandoning net zero by 2050, their core voters, the farmers and small business owners cannot understand that it means their farms and their goods and services are going to be polluted. They cannot understand that their parties do not care about the waters, soils, oceans and atmosphere that they depend on, it’s the fossil fuel industries the politicians are protecting by allowing them to pollute. History should teach the voters that toxic waste sent down rivers never ended well.
It will be more long winded, for example, net zero GHG pollution emissions and climate change caused by GHG pollution, however the key word pollution will have an impact.
Hopefully the MSM journalists can also be pushed to use the word pollution when writing and talking about things like net zero emissions.
— Con Karavas from Adelaide, South Australia