Rural Australians are living climate change in real time - and unlike politicians who scapegoat us, we're taking action | Anika Molesworth

Watching your land wither before your eyes is gut-wrenching, so we've been listening to the science and responding. But we can't do it aloneJust so we're clear: rural Australians are not the backwards-looking, climate denying hicks some of our political "representatives" make us out to be.But if I wasn't embedded in the farming community and living in rural Australia, I would probably be cursing people like me too. The narrative coming from some politicians has the propensity to make one believe that rural Australians are as uneducated and unaware as the duelling banjo players from the movie Deliverance. Continue reading...