Act now to ensure that we have a history left
It is indeed heart-warming, and it fills me with pride, to read two political opponents – the Liberals’ Josh Frydenberg and Labor’s Josh Burns – ″co-penning″ an article which reminds us of the horrors of the Holocaust (Opinion, 27/1). I hope and trust this event is taught to all school students for eternity. Not only did millions die at the hands of the Nazis, the killings were indeed industrialised on a grand scale – unimaginable.
My question to Frydenberg and Burns is why this laudable bipartisanship cannot be transferred to another world crisis: climate change. In the early 1930s, the writing was on the wall in Hitler’s Germany and appeasement was then the prevailing policy from most leaders, regardless of their political persuasions.
A similar outcome is there today unless non-political and scientific solutions are the mantra for all in tackling a fundamental reality. We are not confronting the extermination of millions here, rather the obliteration of all that inhabit this planet. Gentlemen, please apply the same logic of your well-penned missive to confront what scientists tell us is an inevitability. Otherwise we may not have a history left to report on.
Maurie Johns, Mount Eliza
Read a number of letters on the theme of the Holocaust in The Age.
[Read Andrew Bolt’s blog for his response to these letters:
NO, AGE READERS, THESE ARE NOT THE LESSON OF THE HOLOCAUST
Bolt remarks:
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg co-authors an article asking that the Holocaust be never forgotten. That triggers the most amazing whattabout-ism – not to mention hysteria, climate catastrophism and wild moral relativism – in today’s The Age. Read and weep for our future. And for that of Israel.]