It turns out Morrison 'doing nothing' on climate was the best-case scenario

Every morning millions of Australians are waking up to the smell of bushfire smoke. It's inescapable. It's been happening in Canberra for weeks. You can drive hundreds of kilometres to the coast or to the Blue Mountains and still not escape the smoke. I can't remember anything like it in my lifetime, a fierce "unprecedented" bushfire season that started months early and has no end in sight.

People view smoke from scattered bushfires on a lookout
platform in the Blue Mountains. It's estimated about 20 per
cent of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area has been impacted.

Any time you turn on our emergency broadcaster, local ABC Radio, there are reports of up to a hundred fires burning, some of them out of control, as well as highway and road closure announcements and messages for some communities that "it's too late to leave". A more alarming five words are hard to conjure.

For years Liberal prime ministers and National deputies have told us that reducing pollution would cost jobs, cost too much money and harm the economy. But this horrendous summer has modelled the astronomical costs of climate inaction better than anything Treasury could produce.

Read the opinion piece from The Canberra Times by Ebony Bennett - “It turns out Morrison 'doing nothing' on climate was the best-case scenario.”