‘I had a dream last night, that all the little children of the world...’ will have to endure and survive 'natural disasters' of apocalyptic proportions due to our current trend of electing political misfits.

We have reached a point in history where populistic politicians, having often bought their way into positions of power, don't deliver – because they can't deliver.

As I mused through my muesli, I recalled that my dream had a sinister tone of impending disaster, set in a desperate world of gross political ineptitude.

The neo-liberalism sweeping the globe can never fulfil the expectations of the ever-hopefuls that elected them because they're reading from the wrong page, reading from the wrong instruction manual. 

World leaders can no longer be obsessed with endless growth and over consumption of finite resources. Our own inimitable leader, Malcolm 'Nero' Turnbull, pays court to the world’s worst polluters whilst at home Australia burns.

Unseasonable, record-breaking heat waves are screaming the ‘early warnings’ to an unhearing generation of boneheads that think progressive politics is taxing the battlers and digging up more coal.

Progressive politics could be about creating a nationwide policy on passive energy. Encouraging our own solar industry would curb the spiralling power costs and boost employment.

When future generations are handed a legacy of a polluted planet with its contaminated water and depleted resources, they won't give a tinker’s cuss about the 'great times' Big Business had in the process of destroying their world.

Kevin Watchirs, Goulburn