Climate crisis: what you can do while government does nothing

Whether it’s wars or elections, winners throughout history get to frame the story of what happened. Australia’s federal election one month ago is no different.

The climate movement activated record numbers of people in the federal election.

If the Coalition is to be believed, they won convincingly and now have a mandate to continue their do-nothing approach on climate and to wind back Australia’s progressive tax system. If the Murdoch press is to believed, Australians voted overwhelmingly in favour of coal.

However, in this analysis you would miss that the Coalition has a one-seat majority. You would miss that their primary vote dropped. And you would also miss that in the election, Scott Morrison repeatedly chose to champion his government’s renewable energy credentials - “what we have is $25 billion invested in renewable energy in this country between 2018 and 2020, which is an all-time record.”

In an election period, the fact that this renewable energy boom is occurring because Tony Abbott unsuccessfully tried to kill the Renewable Energy Target, the main driver for the current boom, is by the by.

Read the story from The Guardian  by Nicky Ison - “Climate crisis: what you can do while government does nothing.”