hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Expert calls for bipartisan support for emissions trading
"The Federal Government's climate change adviser says support from all sides of politics for an emissions trading scheme will give it a better chance of success.Professor Garnaut has told Channel Nine it is almost inevitable that the Opposition will look to politicise the issue.
But he says the scheme will fare better with bipartisan support."
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If you have a political system like democracy which is based on the quantity of voters rather than on the quality (read: objectivity) of voters and is thus really just a big popularity contest, its no surprise that the factional and overly self-interested politicians play to the most base fears and desires of the crowd rather than to truth.
Politicians politicise issues that in fact require clear and concise action: because their careers are advanced the most by being popular rather than by doing what's necessary. Democracy is not perfect by any means.