Covid and climate: Can Morrison listen to experts to flatten that “other” curve?

Here’s the good news. Prime minister Scott Morrison is not, it turns out, against listening to the experts and taking heed of their advice. It’s what he says he is doing each time he fronts the media when discussing his action on Covid-19, or the Coronavirus, even if some argue that he’s taking an each-way bet on the economy and the nation’s health.

PM Scott Morrison - will he listen to the experts about that "other" curve?

The threat of a run-away escalation of the Coronavirus in Australia, and the scramble of government policy trying to head it off at the pass, has become the all-consuming theme of this past week.

Whatever happens, this short but crucial period will go down in history as The Critical Week during which state and federal governments did or did not act firmly enough and early enough to avoid a devastating health crisis.

For many, it’s a strikingly familiar scenario. It is a study, in miniature, of Australia’s response to the climate emergency.

Read the story from RenewEconomy by Sophie Vorrath - “Covid and climate: Can Morrison listen to experts to flatten that “other” curve?”