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Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide

by thomasfoster96 on 1/4/20, 11:47 AM with 34 comments

  • by bobosha on 1/4/20, 12:00 PM

    Unfortunately, the US and multiple other countries aren't too far behind. Climate-change denial is our generation's ignominy for the future - however long that might be.

  • by projektfu on 1/4/20, 12:10 PM

  • by t-h-e-chief on 1/4/20, 12:04 PM

    Australia not committing suicide; we are already dead - that's why they call us the down-under; the grave of the world. Killed by our wanker leaders.

  • by FranzFerdiNaN on 1/4/20, 12:05 PM

    Australia knew the science and yet went ahead and kept electing conservatives who promised more coal, less taxes, less money for fire brigades and preventing fires, and to do nothing about climate change. They now experience the consequences of their choices. Hopefully next time they make better choices, like putting their current PM in jail for gross negligence and electing people who acknowledge the causes of this heartbreaking disaster and actually do something about it.

  • by stuqqq on 1/4/20, 12:00 PM

    California, Brazil and Australia. I have lost my hope. Next summer, there will be more. Nothing can reverse the damages made by humans. The only way seems to be reducing population to a sustainable level.

  • by csanivar on 1/4/20, 12:19 PM

    Forgive my ignorance but can someone explain how these kinds of fires usually start and why couldn't they stop them when they were small and easy to put away?

  • by pasttense01 on 1/4/20, 12:22 PM

    While Australia has the wrong climate plan, Australia only contributes 1% of the CO2 produced in the world. So even if Australia went carbon free, it would still have the same problems--carbon dioxide circulates throughout the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_Au...

  • by syshum on 1/4/20, 12:06 PM

    Economic Suicide or Climate Suicide, those were the options.

    People can call is climate claim denial all the want, but that is mostly down to them not understanding economics, and the economic realities

    The climate issues can not be solved by banning things, taxing things, or regulating things. It can only be solved in the same way every other human problem has been solved. Innovation, we need to innovate our way out of the problem.

    Looking to government solutions to the issue will always result in disappointment and no solution