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Article Source: The AgeJohn Matthews (a strategist and writer): "The Greens need a brand that is less about trees and more about people. In the absence of any sense of moral certitude from Labor the Greens brand ought to do justice to their policies and reflect their vision for a just, equitable, diverse and sustainable society. A brand that sounds like dangerous socialism to [Australian radio shock jock] Alan Jones could sound an awful lot like common sense to a lot of people.'
The Age kindly published the following comment I sen them about the article:
""Green" is universally identified with a pro-environment stance, and the defence of our common, vital, natural environment and its irreplaceable ecosytems against destructive greed and private profit. However a related generality is Green defence of human social environments (human ecosystems) against amoral greed.
Accordingly, apart from the marginalized but ethically very sound Socialists, the Greens are the only significant political group realistically and honestly defending the sustainability and richness of both non-human ecosystems (the environment) and human ecosystems (human societies). .
John Matthews' assertion that "You can believe in the need to take action on global warming and not vote Green" is manifestly incorrect. Both the Liberal-National Party Coalition Opposition (the Libs) and the Labor Government (the Labs) have essentially the same climate change inaction policies of "5% off 2000 greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by 2020" coupled with unlimited expansion of coal and gas exports that will mean that Australia's domestic plus exported GHG pollution will, relative to 2000, roughly double by 2020 and quadruple by 2050.
The Greens pragmatically support, as a carbon-pricing "first step", Labor's dishonest and counterproductive Carbon Tax (Treasury modelling says it will actually INCREASE Australia's domestic GHG pollution) - ergo vote 1 Green and put Labor last."
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