Flexibility the key to tackling climate change

By Richard Denniss
Updated April 23 2018 - 10:34pm, first published July 4 2014 - 6:40pm

It's much easier to solve imaginary problems than real ones, which explains why the current Government is highly concerned about low levels of debt, and relaxed about high levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Since 1950 our national debt has fallen from 100 per cent to 14 per cent of GDP. Our greenhouse gas emissions have risen six-fold over the same time.

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