At any level of Australian government, there is little so divisive as suggesting that a climate emergency be declared'You have utterly no clue': why 'climate emergency' is Australia's ultimate outrage triggerEarlier this year, Trudi Beck, a general practitioner from Wagga Wagga, wrote to councillors across New South Wales urging them to acknowledge the climate crisis and declare a local emergency. The next town over might have decided that climate change has nothing to do with local government business such as carting rubbish or fixing potholes. “We went from talking about the climate emergency, to now all of a sudden we’re living in it,” says Sarah Mollard, a general practitioner from the coastal NSW town of Port Macquarie. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Deputy PM Michael McCormack (right) and Noosa mayor Tony Wellington at a bushfire control centre in Noosa Heads. “Of course, when we declared a climate emergency I did receive some hate mail.

Source: The Guardian December 29, 2019 18:56 UTC