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Climate change: within Cooee of the 2050 generation: the seriousness of climate change has become unavoidable. Nonie Sharp asks if it will be enough to stir us into action.

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'... most of us find it hard to get an intuitive feeling for the real seriousness of the threat that climate change poses.'

Robert May, Former Scientific Adviser to UK Government

Will the misdeeds of today's leaders come to haunt the living--tomorrow? For their refusal or inability to imagine climate change? And are we all implicated in betrayal of those who will come after? British environmentalist George Monbiot says we are all responsible for oncoming ecological catastrophe: that we stand accused for our pathetic selfishness. Betrayers of our own children for the sake of a lifestyle that allows us to take in the whole globe. That our unrestrained burning of fossil fuels is a Faustian pact.

In his 2007 book Scorcher (Black Inc), Clive Hamilton tells the story that lost Australia ten years in addressing climate change seriously. He also points to reasons for that lost time: these are the conspiratorial actions of the Australian government and the fossil fuel lobby in deliberately hiding the facts of global warming. Denial falsely named scepticism. Scorcher is a book that had to be written and the story is not a nice one.

In that time of strangulated silence the...

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