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Patrick Suckling: Is Australia becoming a climate pariah?

Patrick Suckling: Is Australia becoming a climate pariah?

The Interview vor 6 Jahren

The country's former Ambassador for the Environment analyses the government's approach

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Since September 2019, bush fires in Australia have consumed 10
million hectares of land – an area almost the size of England.
People have died, homes have been destroyed. The annual season of
fires has begun earlier and lasted longer than ever before. Many
see it as evidence of climate change, though the government says
it’s not as simple as that. Condemned by its Pacific neighbours
for inaction, does Australia’s former Ambassador for the
Environment fear his nation is becoming a climate pariah?