Despite soaring rhetoric about Australian values and the absolute priority of securing the future of the Australian people, it is crystal clear that the federal government, the opposition and much of our corporate and media leadership have absolutely no understanding of the greatest threat facing this country, namely human-induced climate change. Having dug themselves a massive climate denial hole, and lacking the honesty to climb out, they are now intent on dragging the rest of the community down with them.
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| Glen Innes has experienced some of the worst conditions in the NSW bushfire disaster including two fatalities and widespread destruction of homes. |
Not so the mayor of Glen Innes Severn Council. Coming to grips with the loss of lives and properties in her community in this weekend’s devastating fires, Carol Sparks had no doubt of the emergency we face. "We are so impacted by drought and the lack of rain," she said. “It's climate change, there's no doubt about it. The whole of the country is going to be affected. We need to take a serious look at our future.”
Read the opinion piece from The Sydney Morning Herald by Ian Dunlop - “A local mayor can see we face a climate emergency, why can't the PM?”
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