{"id":30345,"date":"2019-05-20T10:54:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T00:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=30345"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:08:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T03:38:30","slug":"climate-change-vote-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/climate-change-vote-election\/","title":{"rendered":"On Saturday I Voted For The Planet &#8212; But It Didn&#8217;t Work!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30449\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30449\" class=\"wp-image-30449 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/planet-burning.jpg\" alt=\"Australian election 2019 - climate change\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/planet-burning.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/planet-burning-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/planet-burning-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/planet-burning-1024x536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The planet&#8217;s burning you idiots!&#8217;. But hey, at least your negative gearing and franking credits are safe. (Image: HBO)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Saturday morning I wandered down to my local polling booth to exercise my voting power.\u00a0 I have more of this than the average Australian because South Australia has a low population, yet the same number of senators as other states. <!--more--> But my power pales in comparison to that of Tasmanians who have more than three times my senatorial voting influence.\u00a0 If you shake a Tasmanian&#8217;s hand you can feel them thrum with barely suppressed electoral power.<\/p>\n<p>If you go by kilogram I actually have considerably less voting power than the average Australian, but that doesn&#8217;t change the fact the Senate isn&#8217;t very democratic.\u00a0 We could alter the Constitution to change that but there are probably a couple of things that are more important to add first, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Thou shalt not fuck around with the planet&#8217;s climate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Actually, I think I may be confusing the Australian Constitution with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kama_Sutra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kama Sutra<\/a>.\u00a0 But we should probably change that too while we&#8217;re at it.\u00a0 Especially passage 6,969.\u00a0 That could prevent a lot of injuries.<\/p>\n<h2>Waiting To Vote<\/h2>\n<p>When I got to the polling centre at 11:42 I was all fired up and ready to do my bit to make the world a better place.\u00a0 Unfortunately, there was a line and I was told I would have to wait around 20 minutes, so I left.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t going to wait 20 minutes to vote. That&#8217;s just ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>I came back at 2:48 and still had to wait 14 minutes and 18 seconds to vote.\u00a0 That&#8217;s twice as long as my previous personal record of around 7 minutes.\u00a0 I got so bored I actually spoke with the person next to me.\u00a0 What is democracy coming to in this country when we&#8217;re reduced to talking to our fellow citizens?<\/p>\n<h2>Jokers Are Wild<\/h2>\n<p>While waiting in line a man with nine fingers put some democracy sauce on his stump and claimed a dog had bitten his finger off.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t strike me as funny because I could think of so many politicians who deserved the finger more.\u00a0 But at least this made me feel as though I was back in Queensland.<\/p>\n<h2>Perhaps It&#8217;s Best You Don&#8217;t Know My Preferences&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>I won&#8217;t go into how I ordered my preferences for the House of Representatives.\u00a0 Partly because I want to avoid stupid arguments, but also because, in addition to placing value on voting for who I want to win, I also put weight on the small amount of funding a political party receives for every first preference they\u00a0 get.\u00a0 I also place value on expressing contempt for whoever I put last.\u00a0 My contempt level can vary from minute to minute, so after voting I often am left wondering if I have preferred in the optimal way.<\/p>\n<p>I also won&#8217;t go into the details of my below-the-line Senate vote, but I will mention the Greens did well.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not thrilled with the Green Party.\u00a0 They seem just as stupid as any other political groups but with less cunning.\u00a0 Political bandits &#8212; I mean pundits &#8212; are saying their campaigning has hurt Labor, and helping the Coalition that way is not something you should do if your goal is to cut emissions.\u00a0 However, since no one in this election has put world peace or an end to all disease on the table, I&#8217;ll settle for some senators who are against cooking the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Labor also did well in my senate preferences.\u00a0 They came out strongly in support of the environment this time instead of playing the political game of &#8220;catch the centre&#8221; where they only bother to be one step better than the Coalition.\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice to see a bit of backbone this time instead of just pelvis.\u00a0 I&#8217;m really tired of them <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coccyx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coccyxing<\/a> it up.<\/p>\n<h2>Award For Most Contemptible<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave it to you to decide who was the most contemptible person or party this election.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ll give special mention to Clive Palmer for going full Trump and suggesting we&#8217;re about to be invaded by China.\u00a0 He apparently thinks China may attack to take over mines that are currently exporting to China.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t really see what China would gain from that, but I don&#8217;t try to guess what&#8217;s going on in Trump&#8217;s mind &#8212; 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probably hurt him badly among the psychopathic clown demographic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/clown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The People Have Spoken!\u00a0 (Stupidly!)<\/h2>\n<p>I woke up to a dark and cloudy Sunday morning and saw the Coalition had a clear majority.\u00a0 Yay for you, Coalition.\u00a0 You are now my government.\u00a0 Please try to cause less damage to the radiative balance of the atmosphere than you have been.\u00a0 Tony Abbot is no longer around so you don&#8217;t have to be scared of him and Craig Kelly is so cute and cuddly &#8212; like a big koala &#8212; there&#8217;s no way anyone could ever be afraid of him!\u00a0 (Although I do hear he can go full drop bear on you.)<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday I voted for the planet and lost.\u00a0 On the other hand, if I did win I wouldn&#8217;t know where to keep it anyway.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Bill Nye Planet on fire clip 1080p\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wQnDGDXHNWU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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