Australia leads way in fossil fuel divestment

Bill McKibben - Australia leads the
way in the divestment process.

It looks as though 2016 will go down as the year that Western democracies were torn open to reveal the growing disconnect between citizens and governments. A year when many felt trust in government had fallen so low that it was better to try to burn it all down than continue on our current course.

Next month, Donald Trump will become the president of my country. Britain is destined to leave the European Union. In Australia, the political malaise is so strong that no prime minister has made it through a full term in almost 10 years. But even as the major parties scramble to find a popular face to put on their unpopular policies, many voters are abandoning them for the empty promises and scapegoating of far-right populism.

Read Bill McKibben’s story in The Saturday Paper - “Australia leads way in fossil fuel divestment.”