- 30% of Senators are lawyers!
- 50% of Senators have either a law degree and/or a BA.
- 5% are accountants
- 4% teachers
There is only ONE engineer in the Federal Senate!
Clearly there is an over representation of lawyers in Canberra with both houses of parliament being dominated by them. Overall there are 226 elected pollies in Canberra - this equates to 66 lawyers! Comparatively in both houses there are only THREE engineers!
Is it any wonder that when you listen to a politician speak they tend to skirt the issue because this is what lawyers are trained to do. They are unable to provide straight forward answers because they have not be trained to give them. Engineers on the other hand have been trained to solve problems and provide solutions based on their engineering knowledge and the evidence that is before them. We can find faults in systems by analysing the effects of the interactions in that system.
It is important to note at this stage in the post that we live in what can be termed a "closed system" of inter-related objects. In our world nothing is created or destroyed, it just changes form. So if we decide to bury CO2 deep in the ground - it is not destroyed or removed it is merely "put in a closet" so to speak, until sometime down the track the closet is opened; either by a geological disturbance or some other change in the system.
Furthermore, everything we buy comes from "somewhere" and it is important to be educated in where your "stuff" comes from (and how it is made). If we truly want to help our seemingly dying planet then we have an individual responsibility for careful consideration of our actions.
