The gloves are off: ‘predatory’ climate deniers are a threat to our children

In this age of rapidly melting glaciers, terrifying megafires and ever more puissant hurricanes, of acidifying and rising oceans, it is hard to believe that any further prod to climate action is needed.

A child jumps from a rock outcrop into a lagoon
 in the low-lying Pacific island of Tuvalu.

But the reality is that we continue to live in a business-as-usual world. Our media is filled with enthusiastic announcements about new fossil fuel projects, or the unveiling of the latest fossil-fuelled supercar, as if there’s no relationship between such things and climate change. 

In Australia, the disconnect among our political leaders on the deadly nature of fossil fuels is particularly breathtaking.

Read the story from The Conversation by a Professorial fellow from the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, Tim Flannery -  “The gloves are off: ‘predatory’ climate deniers are a threat to our children.”