This government is not even pretending to act on climate change anymore | Greg Jericho

We have gone from at least trying to look like aiming to reduce emissions to apparently deciding to do nothing

With the appointment of Angus Taylor as minister for energy, Scott Morrison has clearly signalled that he has no care about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. So utterly bereft of reason on the issue and so completely consumed by climate change denial the government is now at the point where even the pretence of doing something to reduce emissions is viewed with distrust.

Perhaps somewhat surprisingly I have a degree of sympathy for members of the public who are climate change deniers. I have this sympathy because I was once one of them.

Continue reading...

from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2N47yT5
via
0 Comments