'The experiences I describe here are nothing like the Prime Minister’s recollections of yesteryear. The fires we are battling today started earlier, burn more intensely, have destroyed more homes and covered more ground than anything we’ve seen before.'
Would that move him? Would he begin to understand the enormity of what this country is now facing due to years of failure to address the causes of climate change?The Prime Minister has repeatedly declined requests to meet with representatives of Emergency Leaders for Climate Action, but instead referred former fire chiefs to ministers Littleproud and Taylor. There are things we wanted to ask the Prime Minister to do, but we now realise that we must try to fill the leadership vacuum ourselves.
The Federal Government’s failure to address climate change will increasingly place Australian lives and property in danger. As more people raise their voices to demand Federal Government action, I hope that the movement for change becomes irresistible. If the Prime Minister really wants to restore calm, then he needs to step up and show leadership. A national, co-ordinated response to more intense and frequent extreme weather events, and a policy framework that will drastically reduce greenhouse emissions is now imperative. We owe it to future generations, and to those who are suffering loss right now.
Greg Mullins is a former commissioner NSW Fire and Rescue and founder of Emergency Leaders for Climate Action.
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