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| Samantha Hepburn. |
It is saddening to
see propaganda being used to disrupt, distort and delay matters already clearly
understood by science.
Coal is the villain in the unbalancing the earth’s
atmospheric equilibrium, a fact long understood throughout the scientific world
and accepted by many of our power brokers.
Many, they are rich, powerful and almost without fail,
friends of the fossil-fuel industry, continue to dispute that reality and to
enhance corporate profits, appeal through propaganda to the wants and aspirations
of people, rather than admit to what science has been telling the world for
decades.
A professor of Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin
University, Samantha Hepburn, has written about this perverse discussion on The Conversation.
He story, headed: “Court challenge will test coal mining’s climate culpability” wonders whether a new legal challenge to the proposed
Carmichael coal mine – Australia’s largest – will test in the federal court
whether climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions should be taken into
account when assessing prospective coal licences in Australia?
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