Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg聽has urged world leaders to consider the fate of the world鈥檚 poorest people before decisions are made about climate policy, writes Pip Hinman.
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The climate movement needs to adopt the call for peace as聽there will be no future, sustainable or otherwise, unless we resist authorities鈥 willingness to go to war, argues Nick Deane.
The latest fire emergency in four states has rammed home the meaning of the words 鈥渃atastrophic climate change鈥 in the minds of most people in Australia. Most now realise that this is a climate emergency and our society should mobilise all its resources to address it.
Australia remains a world leader in cruelty towards refugees, writes Zebedee Parkes.听
There are countless reports from NGOs, scientists and government agencies on climate refugees.
For example, last year more than 2 million people had to gather their possessions and flee as floods hit the Yangtze River in China. But, despite this becoming one of the world鈥檚 greatest issues there is very little activism around climate refugees in the developed world.
Global warming has already increased the risk of major disruptions to Pacific rainfall, according to our . The risk will continue to rise over coming decades, even if global warming during the 21st century is restricted to 2鈩僥lcius.
Kiribati, a nation made up of 33 islands in the South Pacific, is predicted to be one of the first countries to vanish beneath the sea before the end of the century. The government has already bought 2400 hectares of land in Fiji in case they need to more the entire population.