Thread by @iMusing

scientists, activists, even notionally leftist parties have toiled away in mitigating anthropogenic warming for decades, while under relentless attack from conservative forces. This conservative strolls out at a minute to midnight, claims credit, and is praised to the skies.

https://twitter.com/Matt_KeanMP/status/1456532064019234821

Malcolm Turnbull did the same on marriage equality. He did not even NOD to the decades of struggle by LGBTIQ activists and their supporters. He regularly touts the Marriage Act amendment as his achievement, his legacy.

conservatives destabilised the global economy until it collapsed, weaponised countercyclical public spending by centrist leaders - on rescuing neoliberal capitalism - and went straight back to lying about public debt to regain power and resume trashing the world for profit.

there is zero risk in asking recent climate convert conservatives if they now concede the science and activists and Gillard government and everyone else was right and they were wrong. They shifted because business and finance shifted. They are not gonna reverse conversion.

we do not have to gently encourage and lavishly praise wealthy powerful white men. They are not children. Either their minute to midnight climate epiphany is genuine or it is not. They should still be interrogated. They have repeatedly shown they can not be trusted.

climate science does not suddenly become uncontested when some Coalition politicians stop contesting it for political gain. Climate science is long confirmed and action has long been urgent. Coalition politicians are the problem, not the solution.

now do climate science.

https://twitter.com/michellegrattan/status/1456430033912807425

if journalists stopped heaping rapturous and undeserved praise on their conservative faves (for too-little too-late pronouncements on climate) and instead did their fucking jobs, this line of profit-seeking conservative reasoning might be made more visible.

https://twitter.com/Gtrain62/status/1456750761476567044