Published: January 19, 2020
I just returned from another round of fighting fires. It was devastating to see the outcome of appalling leadership from Canberra
Not long ago, somebody said to me, “It would take a huge disaster for this government to acknowledge that there is such a thing as climate change.” Tragic, but perhaps true.
While we now seem to have grudging government acknowledgement that climate change is the predominant driver of the current bushfire disaster (notwithstanding it previously being portrayed as “not a factor”, “one of many factors” or a delusion of inner-city latte-sipping greenies, etc), the acknowledgement has yet to be matched by action on the root cause.
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