Fighting Back Against Abbott's Fossil Foolery
Channel: Green Left
Date: 2013-10-18

Green Left Weekly journalist and author Simon Butler tackles the serious issue of climate change in a climate of denial. Despite the need for urgent action, climate change was a non-issue for Liberal, Labor and the corporate media in the recent Australian election campaign. Yet the campaign occurred while the country experienced its second-warmest August, second warmest winter and the warmest 12 months on record. 

In one of his first cuts, PM Abbott has axed the Climate Commission on the eve of the International Panel on Climate Change releasing data confirming the serious consequences of global warming. 

If capital's commodification of nature is the root cause of the climate crisis, what can we do to address the uneven and terrifying impact of climate change?