{"id":330633,"date":"2017-10-16T04:09:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T03:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/climate-change-insurgent-tony-abbotts-crusade\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T04:09:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T03:09:12","slug":"climate-change-insurgent-tony-abbotts-crusade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/climate-change-insurgent-tony-abbotts-crusade\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Insurgent: Tony Abbott\u2019s Crusade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>He is the inimitable, true political ugliness, the bad boy with a mistimed punch. \u00a0While not quite professorial in his lunacy (that honour will have to go to Pauline Hanson of One Nation, whose sincere bigotry remains pungent), he aspires to it with a greater sense of reason.<\/p>\n<p>This Exocet missile of Australian politics continues to direct his power and magic into the vessels of the Turnbull government, hoping that his relevance will resume form. \u00a0His victories, gained from the right wing of the Liberal-National coalition, have been significant, effectively trimming the efforts of the government.<\/p>\n<p>Tony\u2019s never so immaculate releases always tend to rumble. \u00a0Before an audience at the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London this week, Abbott was <a href=\"http:\/\/tonyabbott.com.au\/2017\/10\/transcript-hon-tony-abbott-mp-address-global-warming-policy-foundation-westminster-london\/\">very clear<\/a>: \u201cPrimitive people once killed goats to appease the volcano gods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The societies of now were certainly more \u201csophisticated\u201d but for all that progress humans were still characteristically delusional, a superstitious lot \u201csacrificing our industries and our living standards to the climate gods to little effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalism had become a dangerous dogma rather than an indispensable pursuit for a healthier earth. Environmentalism has managed to combine a post-socialistic instinct for big government with a post-Christian nostalgia for making sacrifices in a good cause.<\/p>\n<p>This was not all. \u00a0A heated earth was something to relish not abhor. \u201cIn most countries, far more people die in cold snaps than&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/10\/climate-change-insurgent-tony-abbotts-crusade\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is the inimitable, true political ugliness, the bad boy with a mistimed punch. \u00a0While not quite professorial in his lunacy (that honour will have to go to Pauline Hanson of One Nation, whose sincere bigotry remains pungent), he aspires to it with a greater sense of reason. This Exocet missile of Australian politics continues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-330633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}