Tony Abbott is a climate change villian repeating U.S. coal industry slogans

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ony Abbott is a climate change “villain” who is repeating the slogans used by the coal industry in the US, according to bestselling author and social activist Naomi Klein.

Naomi Klein - Abbott's a
climate change villain.

Klein, who is heading to Australia for a series of public events, said the level of inaction on climate change in Australia was only matched by her native Canada.

“In Canada I can’t tell where the oil industry ends and the government begins and in Australia the same is true when it comes to coal,” she told Guardian Australia.

“The Abbott government is repeating the talking points of the coal industry, the same stuff I heard at the Heartland Institute, that ‘coal is good for humanity’ and ‘God bless coal’.

Read the Guardian story - “Tony Abbott is a climate change 'villain', says Canadian author Naomi Klein.”