Letters: Climate protesters should go back to school

Today readers have their say on the youth climate protests and the Broncos’ performance in their NRL season opener.

Schoolchildren shout slogans during a strike and protest against inaction on climate change. Photo by Saeed Khan / AFP

I WONDER how many of the wannabe mini-greenie schoolkids who cut classes yesterday to protest over inaction on climate change

(C-M, Mar 15) would be as keen to attend a protest on a Saturday.

To most of the kids, this exercise in futility is a lark to skip school, and one which the vast majority can ill afford to do based on recent deplorable NAPLAN results.

If they attended classes they may learn that, while renewable energies will be viable in the future, we must have sustainable base power generation in the meantime based on fossil fuels and/or nuclear power if we are to avoid serious power outages and unaffordable power bills.

Con van Pelt, Mermaid Waters

AS MUCH as I am concerned about miners having jobs, I am more concerned about them having a liveable planet.

There are no good mining jobs on an unliveable planet.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tells us we can’t keep burning fossil fuels if we want the world to feed itself in coming decades.

I want my kids to have a safe place to live and healthy food to eat.

There will be plenty of jobs in renewable energy and other industries.

As a parent, I encourage all Queenslanders to support the school strikers and learn more about protecting our climate.

Heidi Edmonds, Sandgate

I THINK farmers are more concerned about underground aquifers being drained by mining and gas extraction than by short-term jobs.

If the Government stopped subsidising fossil fuels and used that for renewables there would be jobs for all.

As a mother in a regional town that relies on underground water, I am concerned. I guess city people who just turn on a tap wouldn’t understand.

The gas industry will drain hundreds of bores and our kids won’t have access to that water to grow food.

So yes, I support the kids striking. People across Australia should get out there and support them.

Leanne Brummell, St George

THE drivel cascading from the mouths of the indoctrinated climate-change protesting babes will one day return to haunt them as they contemplate the unaffordable electricity dribbling from their power sockets.

I only hope they will remember the names of the economically destructive zealots who, acting in their own best interests, seduced them into believing such nonsense.

Crispin Walters, Chapel Hill

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Broncos coach Anthony Seibold. Pic Mark Cranitch

BRONCOS CAN’T BUCK PAST BY REPEATING MISTAKES

THE Broncos’ lacklustre loss to the Storm in the NRL season opener on Thursday night has exposed the real problem facing the Brisbane Broncos – it’s Groundhog Day at Red Hill.

Brisbane fans have been left scratching their heads after witnessing a carbon copy of every bad game the team played last season.

Despite the fanfare and anticipation of a fresh, new coach in Anthony Seibold, the Broncos kicked off the season with a tired, broken format that reeks of the Wayne Bennett stubbornness that plagued the club last year.

It’s time to cut our losses. Jack Bird was an investment that didn’t pay off. Darius Boyd has played one season too long and should have abdicated the No.1 jersey for superstar Jamayne Isaako.

For a club that sacked one of the greatest coaches of all time, tough decisions on player line-ups should be a walk in the park.

Yet the Broncos’ hierarchy has persisted with a halves combination that fired sporadically at best last season.

The timid, placid style of play was all too familiar and proved Einstein’s theory that trying the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.

It’s time to be bold, brave and ring the changes that should have occurred over the off-season.

Fans don’t want a repeat of 2018 – a year sprinkled with brilliance that ended with a familiar outcome.

Lloyd Griffin, Rochedale South

IT LOOKS like I’m going to have to find another NRL club to follow if Thursday night was the best the new coach can do with the Broncos?

What a disgrace.

Norm Coleman, Slacks Creek

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