Australia isn't doing its part for the global climate. Sooner or later we’ll have to pay our share

As the Australian election approached, the UK parliament declared a national climate emergency. Perhaps, with a different electoral outcome, Australia would have followed suit. Instead, at least for the next three years, we will ignore the emergency while chasing the mirage of coalmines promising to create thousands of jobs.

‘The coal boom of the last decade will fade away, whatever Australian
 governments do. By contrast, the climate emergency is not going away.’

That mirage began to fade almost immediately with the announcement that the China Stone project, right next to Adani’s Carmichael mine project in the Galilee Basin, had suspended its bid for mining leases. Other projects in the basin have been on hold for years.

Read the story from The Guardian by John Quiggin - “Australia isn't doing its part for the global climate. Sooner or later we’ll have to pay our share.”