Bob's news from Greens around the globe
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Monday 25th January 2010, 10:37am
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Some news coming across my desk about Greens colleagues around the world that I thought you may be interested in….cheers, Bob
The German Greens turned 30 years old last week – they now have 68 MPs in the Bundestag! - Story
The French Greens were featured in Newsweek in late December, as France's Constitutional Court threw out Sarkozy's carbon tax. Newsweek speculates that the ruling will lift the Greens vote further in elections in March.
Greens in the Philippines are excited this week that for the first time one of the 10 official Presidential candidates for the Philippines will be a Green! The candidate Nicanor Perlas approached us to help his appeal against the Commission on Elections who had deemed him as a nuisance candidate. I wrote a letter to the Commissioners along with others, and was thrilled that Perlas was reinstated – only 2 out the 100 people that appealed to the Commission were reinstated as official candidates for the 2010 election - Story
On 9 January the Green Party in Portugal voted with the Government to approve plans to legalise gay marriage. A Green party amendment to proposal to allow gay couples to adopt children was however rejected – Story
Greens in Ireland have been busy since they recently renegotiated their alliance for Government in October 2009 – and I recently sent my congratulations to a new Greens Senator who started in December, the former mayor of Galway Niall Ó Brolcháin.
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Romanian greens
There are some important gains. But still in some countries as it is my country, Romania, the Greens have not done anything. Have raised public awareness by involving the European Greens. Just like the Greens will take root in this country
locking in failure
Hey Bob,
Just a little note to say how disappointed I am in your failure to move forward with the government on the CRPS bills.
I can't figure out what your game is. You want to save the world but you only want to save it all at once - not one step at a time. That to me is just plain dumb and shows how out of touch you are.
There is no excuse for the past six months. You and your mate Christine have worked so hard to undermine the Federal Labor government and the results are all around us.
The ETS bills are dead. The IPCC is falling apart and the politics on climate change action have turned poisonous. This was an entirely predicable outcome, but for some reason you and Christine thought you knew better. I realise some heavy hitters like James Hansen have fueled your insipid political approach to the issues.
But come on Bob, you have been in politics a long time, and unless you believe in bloody revolution - compromise is all there is.
It's time to wise up to the real lay of the land and vote for the CPRS as the best deal we are going to get in the next 10 years.
I'm sick of your mealy mouth excuses as to why it's not good enough. What's not good enough is your leadership of the Australian environment movement and the buck stops with you as to why we are in such deep crap with moving Australia forward. Take some political responsibility for what you have sowed.
Truly Bob, your legacy is about to be flushed out to sea. Only you can change that destiny of failure.
Sincerely.
Simon Mansfield
Rejection of the Rudbotorama of ETS
Both the government's and the opposition's schemes for ETS, and let's be clear, there is effectively no difference between, will do absolutely nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and are not designed to do so. This is acknowledged in areas that cannot be accused of being Greens fronts - that well known journal of revolution and subversion, "The Age", published a very good article recently comparing and contrasting the two with the conclusion that there was no real difference and that both were useless in terms of making any real impact on emissions. These are policies concocted by parties that are not comitted to emissions reductions, tackling climate change, or anything much at all besides getting you to vote for them. If this is what people want then they have two excellent choices, they do not require a third. If the Greens were to sign up to this rubbish they would loose all credibility with those who actually do care about the climate and emissions issue and would probably score very few extra votes from those who are being conned by the ALP/Libs alliance.
Howard Gibson
Yeah, Greens are developing
Yeah, Greens are developing from time to time, and I hope with time goes by we will become green sociaty for 100%.
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