Our climate opportunity lives and dies in a moment

Malcolm Turnbull - our
chance to again be a
useful contributor to climate
change mitigation lived and
died in the moment our new
PM was elected.

Australia’s most contemporary opportunity to become an active participant in mitigating climate change and again be a leader in the world community lived and died in the moment Malcolm Turnbull became the Prime Minister.

He brought with him a sense of hope and a belief that Australia would be acting to keep its fossil fuels in the ground, but in an act of allegiance to the neoliberalists, he abandoned beliefs he had earlier demonstrated and dropped into lockstep with the “business as usual” brigade.

After weeks of chanting endlessly about “jobs and growth,” it seems he has shifted the election debate into “his” territory, the economy, never mentioning that his, and by inference, ours, inattention to climate change will erode and eventually destroy his much-cherished economy.

Elizabeth Farrelly has made some observations about our PM and it is worth reading her story in The Sydney Morning Herald - “The great tragedy of Malcolm Turnbull.”