Makes sense to you to ban all fossil fuel development and eventually all exports of same? Illuminate me. How the hell is that not going to turn this Country into Venezuela??
Why would you want it to do that?? What's in it for you to reduce a pretty good lifestyle to miserable?
I'm just fascinated by what makes people vote the way do, there are some perfectly good reasons, sometimes, but it intrigues me how two people can see the same set of data and come to two totally different assessments of it.
I know I'll just get myself into trouble again, but I genuinely can't get enough of 'what makes voters tick'.
That said, I hardly know why I vote as I do sometimes, I have no hard 'ology' and none of the Parties offer more than a few agreeable policies. Maybe that's why the subject interests me so much. Why do others become so convinced that they have the solutions nailed while I just see the gaping holes in their grand plans?
I'm a nit picker, cynic, pragmatist with no 'loyalty' to any particular ideology, but with a few serious misgivings/hates about some aspects of most 'ologies.
The Greens are way out in front of my wtf are they thinking list so this is too good an opportunity to miss.
Most Green voters I get to converse with are 'bambi blinded' and think the Greens are still into whale hugging and 'Greenpeace enviromnentalism' or they accuse me of killing the planet or something naff.
I normally vote for the Nats because .. rural region and they do best for the people who still make a living off the land.
I'm a townie in an aged care villa, so their income benefits me as they spend in the town and keep the shops open. By extension I vote 'on their behalf' because in a roundabout way that benefits me too.
The greatest threat to their income are the Greens who impose stupidly restrictive rules on properties that have been well run for generations without their interference.
Sorry Art, but around here the Greens ARE the locust plague.
They move up here to kinder climes, bring their City misunderstanding with them, then vote against the best interest of their neighbours! And wonder why people don't like 'em all that much.
It's not as you may suspect that farmers hate environmentalists. As I said, those farms are their living, they're hardly 'vandalising' them! You may have no idea how much it costs them in time effort and money to keep noxious weeds down without poisoning the farm! They've been doing it for generations, they don't need to 'told' to do it.
But it's stupid rules that cost them money time, and worry that are the bugbear. Silly things like dam sizes and placement when it's obvious where the bloody things have to be and no serious farmer wants a good paddock wasted by a dam bigger than he needs.
Or stopping them clearing scrap saplings out of previously cleared land. Ridiculous to allow prime pasture land, perhaps left unstocked for 2 years during divorce settlement stuff ups or whatever, go back to forest through no fault of the owner.
The farm I'm using as example was surrounded on 3 sides by old growth State Forest stretching over 30kms in some directions, yet he wasn't permitted to rip a couple of 2 year old saplings out of a prize grazing paddock, that cattle would have munched as seedlings anyway, without attending 'enviro' seminars and a mountain of paperwork? Where is the
common sense factor in that?
To add a fun fact into it, he's also a bee keeper and knows the latin name of every damned tree that grows around here. He kept asking the "environmentalists expert" bloke running the seminar 'instructing' them on the value of trees about certain ones by their official names and making him look it up. bwaahahaha.
... anyway just outlining my thinking a bit. Might explain the arched backs the Greens encounter from rural people.
I'm a country Nat interested in what makes a city Green tick when they vote on, based on their vast agricultural knowledge gleaned from keeping a 'pot' plant alive on a windowsill, how farmers should run their business.
Good answer! But don't laugh yet, you may get the one big plague we missed out on!