Seriously, Scott, are Greta's warnings any scarier than your church’s?

You will have noted the Prime Minister's rebuke of Greta Thunberg's powerful address to the United Nations. He preferred to go to Ohio to attend a factory opening and see the wonders of a new Macca's drive-thru rather than attend the UN Climate Summit himself, but he did say: "Yes, we've got to deal with the policy issues and we've got to take it seriously, but I don't want our children having anxieties about these issues.

The Prime Minister doesn't want children like Greta
Thunberg to be overly anxious about climate change. 

"I say this as a parent, too: we've got to make sure that our kids understand the facts, but they also have the context and the perspective, and that we do not create an anxiety among children in how we talk about and deal with these very real issues."

In response, reader John Lloyd poses a couple of serious questions. "Which of the following is the scarier to tell kids? 1. There is a possibility that in the future you, your family and friends will live in a damaged world that won't be anywhere as nice as it is now if we don't fix it. Or 2. There is the certainty that you, your family and your friends will be tortured for all eternity if you or they reject our concept of God. I reckon No.2.

"And Scott Morrison's church encourages this anxiety-inducing rubbish being taught – presumably to children."

Read the views of Peter Fitzsimmons in The Age - “Seriously, Scott, are Greta's warnings any scarier than your church’s?"

The four breakthroughs that will revolutionise long-haul flights in 10 to 15 years

Australians love travelling. We enthusiastically jump on planes, seeking out wonders of the world.

US start-up Boom Technology have designed
a supersonic jet that would reduce flight time between
Sydney and Los Angeles to 7.5 hours.

But we're increasingly conscious of our wellbeing onboard these long-haul flights. Will advancements in technology help resolve this dilemma?

By 2035, there will be almost twice the number of passengers as 2016, according to the International Air Transport Association, leaping from 3.8 billion to a huge 7.2 billion.

As the aviation industry prepares for billions of new customers, here's some of the trends that will revolutionise flying in the next 10 to 15 years.

Read the ABC News story by Chrystal Zhang - "The four breakthroughs that will revolutionise long-haul flights in 10 to 15 years.”

(Chrystal Zhang omits/forgets/sidesteps the much-needed discussion about how all this will happen in an energy restrained future or the fact that unrestrained climate change, a certainty if people continue to live with expectations that evolved in an energy-rich 20th Century, will render the promises of travel hollow. Exciting, yes; possible, unlikely - Robert McLean)