Climate cover

Climate cover

Negotiations between Labor and the Greens over the government’s incredibly dubious safeguard mechanism remain opaque, with neither party commenting on where things stand – though news that the Albanese government just approved a coal-seam gas project through to 2077 can’t be going down well.

Climate Cult

I was struck by the opening remarks in Cailin Riley’s piece titled “Fossil Fuel Ban Proposed” [Residence, February 2]. She begins with: “Over the past few years, climate change has become a crisis that is impossible to ignore.” This view, referring to an imminent climate crisis, has lost its sense of urgency for me. I have listened to it since the 1970s, and we certainly had real pollution issues then. But, as many of you can attest, reports of…