Christoff helps us understand the dangers of coal exports

The urgency of a thoughtful response to our changing climate exceeds the understanding of most.

Peter Christoff.

Simply surviving, dealing with what exists and getting through each day is itself so personally demanding and intellectually so all-consuming, that matters that are world-wide in scale seems, to most people, beyond something which they can influence and consequently should concern themselves with.

That, however, is something about which people are desperately wrong.

Any response to climate change that will mitigate in any sense what is happening must begin with a public ground-swell of concern and as such authorize the government of the day to make dramatic changes to how it administers Australia.

Our government needs to display courage and while restructuring our society, must, as an associate professor at the University of Melbourne, Peter Christoff, writes in “Why Australia must stop exporting coal”.

Australia’s overall contribution to the world’s green house gas emissions, if its exports of coal and gas are not considered, is miniscule.

However, should we consider the emissions that result from the use of that coal and gas, then Australia is a significant player in the emission stakes.