Australia is “caught in a climate spiral” of its own creation, says the world's media.
The Atlantic“Australia is buckling under the conditions that its fossil fuels have helped bring about. Perhaps the two biggest kinds of climate calamity happening today have begun to afflict the continent,”Those two calamities are, first, the bushfires, and, second, the “irreversible scouring of the earth’s most distinctive ecosystems” – in our case, the Great Barrier Reef.
“Faced with such geographical challenges, Australia’s people might rally to reverse these dangers. Instead, they have elected leaders with other priorities.”“Australia is the world’s second-largest exporter of coal power, and it has avoided recession for the past 27 years in part by selling coal,” Meyer said.
“Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests.” “And so maybe Australia will find itself stuck in the climate spiral, clinging ever more tightly to coal as its towns and cities choke on the ash of a burning world.”The Atlantic wrote that Australia was stuck in a ‘climate spiral’. Picture: Saeed Khan/AFPElsewhere, CNN’s Angela Dewan wrote a piece wondering whether Australia could afford to continue on its current trajectory.
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