Commitment to a bit is fast becoming a commodity as rare as, I don’t know, fossil fuels.
However unlike exhaustible, finite natural resources, there was an abundance of commitment in the ground at Bondi Beach yesterday evening when a reported 400 protestors stuck their heads in the sand in a canny impression of Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the federal government’s failure to address climate change on the agenda at this weekend’s G20 Summit in Brisbane.
Bondi’s #headsinsandsalute is the successor to a similar stunt that took place in Townsville in September and saw hundreds of glorious butts rise in protest at sunset, lowering only to answer the call from activists who shouted “Obama’s on board, Xi Jinping’s on board, everyone’s on board except one man” with a resounding “Tony Abbott”.
Earlier this week, the US and China made public an historic deal to significantly reduce their respective greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2020. Exactly a month ago, Prime Minister Abbott praised coal as being “good for humanity” while opening a coal mine in Queensland.
Wantonly flouting the first law of holes, earlier this year Australia became the first nation to reverse affirmative climate change action by repealing a tax on greenhouse gas emissions.
Looks like we’re going to have to dig a lot deeper. China’s looking better by the minute.
Photo via Mashable
