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I really wonder if the 'job creation' that goes with the mining and dredging they want to do to the dying reef will counterbalance the estimated 100,000 jobs in the tourism industry that are predicted to disappear once the reef is completely dead and no one wants to visit any more.

Then again, I guess it is not really about the jobs per se, but rather the $$$ kickback in royalties and 'spotters fees' that are paid into political campaign funds for passing the wrong bills through parliament.

A good example of Poe's Law?

Yeah, good riddance!

>I really hate the environment. It doesn't really exist

If only they could tow the reef outside of the environment... (Hat tip to John Clarke - RIP)

For those who haven't seen it, cyberferret is referring to this interview with an Australian government official about an environmental disaster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcU4t6zRAKg

Edit: Spoiler alert below... ;-)

John Clarke is a satirist, who played the role of whichever government official was topical at the time for decades. Not an actual government official.

John Clarke was a satirist :-(

Would you please not post inflammatory political rhetoric to HN? We're trying for thoughtful discussion here. Obviously it's hard to have thoughtful discussion about urgent issues, but comments like what you're posting only make things worse.

Your comments were obviously sarcastic, but that doesn't make them ok. It's the venting indignation part that doesn't help. HN is something of an ecosystem in its own right; there's no need to damage one in defence of another. Nothing good comes of it.

Sometimes satire and sarcasm are the best way to draw attention to the absurdity of a given position.

The point isn't that sarcasm is always bad, but that it doesn't make an otherwise bad comment good.

And there is a glut of sarcasm on the internet already, so one can afford to be a bit fussy about quality.

Hahaha thank you for this satire. Haven't laughed this hard

Somebody apparently enjoyed the posting. The rest of us shall never know why, for it is gone now.

Hahaha thank you for this satire. Haven't laughed this hard

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