Australia isn't doing its part for the global climate. Sooner or later we'll have to pay our share | John Quiggin

But the cost of responding to climate change is trivial compared with the benefits As the Australian election approached, the UK parliament declared a national climate emergency. Perhaps, with a different electoral outcome, Australia would have followed suit. Instead, at least for the next three years, we will ignore the emergency while chasing the mirage of coalmines promising to create thousands of jobs.That mirage began to fade almost immediately with the announcement that the China Stone project, right next to Adani's Carmichael mine project in the Galilee Basin, had suspended its bid for mining leases. Other projects in the basin have been on hold for years. Continue reading...