Letter from today’s (October 12, 2019) Melbourne Age.
I’m confused, if an overwhelming majority of Australians understand that the first step in negotiating our way out of this human-caused climate mess, is to declare at climate emergency, why can’t our government also see the difficulty?
Continuing the confusion, why did Australians, who apparently are concerned about the damage we are doing to our atmosphere, re-elect a government that is peppered with climate deniers; a group of people, both men and women, who appear to care nought for the future wellbeing of their fellow Australians.
Interestingly it can be explained; well, not explained, but at least understood in some sense.
Sustainability Victoria’s Dianna McDonald recently presented the findings of as large survey two a Melbourne forum, illustrating that while about 70 percent of Victorians care about climate changed want either action on mitigation and adaptation, that concern, the survey found, fell away dramatically when asked to prioritise state projects.
The projects, it seemed were about “now”, while climate change, in the view of most survey respondents, was still some way off in the future.
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