Climate change bigger threat than economic instability

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ustralians are being stampeded into worrying about the economy and terrorism when the real catastrophe tightens its grip on the world and passes without formal recognition or comment.

Africans, Quartz Africa tells us, see climate change as clearly a greater threat to them than economic difficulties or likely violence from Isis or other similar groups.

According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center, “Almost 60% of Africans believe that climate change is the single-most important threat facing the continent. They place this issue above fears about the economy or terrorism”.

Read the Quartz Africa story - “Chart: Africans think climate change is a bigger threat than economic instability”

Concern for Abbott's 'death cults' surpasses that of climate change

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Tony Abbott - his job is done,
 we are more concerned
 about 'death cults'
than climate change.

ony Abbott has achieved his goal – Australians are now more concerned about remote external threats than a certain difficulty that is quickly coming over the horizon.

Promoting himself as a good Prime Minister who concerns himself with Australian’s safety, Mr Abbott applies a strange filter endlessly warning the country about the ISIS “death cult” that is “coming to get us” and yet denying and ignoring the thing that will seriously disrupt life for all Australians, climate change.

Sadly his work has been effective and Australians, the Guardian reports, are more concerned about ISIS, and the economy which he has continually bleated about, that they are about climate change.

Read the Guardian story –   “Australians more concerned about Isis than climate change – survey”.