Bill Stefaniak rehearses standard climate-denier lines, arguing our greenhouse gas abatement efforts will make no difference, so we should do nothing (CW, 21 October 2021, page 8). This completely ignores that the current global emissions trajectory would lead to catastrophe, and that any reductions in emissions will incrementally reduce impacts.
Australia will be the developed nation most impacted by global heating, with much of Australia at risk of becoming unusable for agriculture or even uninhabitable. It is therefore in our interests to lead in reducing emissions, to provide a credible basis for encouraging other countries to follow suit. Instead, our federal government has been a global laggard, selling out our nation’s future.
- J Miller, Curtin ACT
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