Gordon Campbell: On Why Right Wingers Think All Governments (including Their Own) Are Incompetent

Since open denial of climate change is no longer a viable political option, denial now comes in disguise. The release this week of the coalition government’s ‘draft emissions reductions plan” shows it is refusing to see the need to cut emissions at source. Instead, it proposes to keep treating economic growth as its overriding priority. It isn’t all that surprising that the government should see no leading role for itself in the response to climate change. As an item of quasi-religious faith, centre-right governments hold that governments – including themselves, are inherently incompetent...