"PM Scott Morrison, a conservative, has made it clear that Australia’s economic prosperity comes first." Repeating, uncritically, the claim that ignoring the climate emergency and embracing coal is a pathway to economic prosperity shows lack of judgment.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/world/australia/fires-red-skies-Mallacoota.html …
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Brynn O'BrienVerified account @brynnobrien
a favourite line of the fossil fuels industry (and politicians) is, “we can’t switch off coal/oil/gas overnight” (no one has argued we should)
but what has effectively happened this summer in NSW is that the tourism industry has been switched off ‘overnight’
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