climate change, page-121

This is Richard Flanagan at his finest - We're paying to destroy our home:

'Australia’s fossil fuel industry is already huge, thanks to massive taxpayer subsidies — some $29 billion... Every Australian man, woman and child is underwriting their own apocalypse to the tune of $1,198 a year."

If the Australian prime minister's government genuinely believed the science, it would immediately put a price on carbon, declare a moratorium on new fossil fuel projects and transfer fossil fuel subsidies to renewables industries

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/opinion/sunday/australia-fires-climate-change.html?