Sky News host Peta Credlin says “if anything good” has come out of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, it is the 'sudden and almost complete absence of bleating about climate change'.
It's hard 'to scare people about climate change when they're faced with a deadly virus'Sky News host Peta Credlin says “if anything good” has come out of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, it is the "sudden and almost complete absence of bleating about climate change". “I suppose it's hard to scare people about a possible crisis, in a few decades time, when you've got a real one on your hands that's killing people now,” she said.
Mr Credlin said Opposition leader Anthony Albanese “couldn’t help himself” to inquire why the Morrison government would take the advice of scientists on COVID-19 but not on climate change. Seemingly, “ingrained bad habits can't be suppressed for long,” Ms Credlin said.
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