Discussing future economic growth and not mentioning climate change is like staging Hamlet and forgetting to mention that his father recently died. Greg Jericho previews the G20.
The G20 this week in Brisbane will discuss a number of topics. But one topic that won’t come up, due to Tony Abbott’s insistence that it not, is climate change.
This is nothing new; in fact, it is just another example of purposeful intransigence from climate change sceptics that has been going on now for over a quarter of a century.
The 25th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Wallhad me searching through my archives of news magazine from 1989. The adverts and articles within the pages of my old Time and Newsweek copies reminded me of how much the world has changed.
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