Australia’s Bushfires Show the Wicked, Self-Destructive Idiocy of Climate Denialism Must Stop

Jan 18, 2020, 03:08 PM

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Australia’s fires this summer—unprecedented in the scale of their destruction—are the ferocious but inevitable reality of global warming. A hotter, drier climate means more and longer droughts and more and fiercer fires.
So if Australia is on the front line of the climate crisis, why are we not also a world leader in climate action?
In most countries, asking people whether they believe in the science of climate change is like asking them whether they believe in gravity.