Climate change seemed far away, but COVID-19 showed how little it takes for people to behave badly

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What we’ve learnt over the last two years is how little it takes for people to behave badly. When natural systems go awry, human behaviour quickly follows.

Ten years ago I nearly made headlines for all the wrong reasons. I was having morning coffee with a group of people who, like me, were regular researchers at the National Library. There, in the sedate surroundings of the Book Plate Cafe, the conversation turned to climate change. It quickly became clear that one of the group was a denier, writing a book proving climate scientists were all wrong.

I’m ashamed to say that what stopped me wasn’t the wrongness of physical violence as a response to a difference of opinion. It was the headline I suddenly pictured: Author Assaults Elderly Researcher.So, you could say I’ve been an activist – though not a very effective one – for climate change for a long time. I’ve done the rooftop panels, gone on the marches, and handed out the how-to-vote cards.But until recently it was a head thing, not a heart thing.

It’s the image of the breakdown of order – even more than the image of fires and floods – that fills me with horror for all those two-year-olds, and all the kids yet unborn. If the last roll of toilet paper is worth coming to blows over, what will happen when it’s about the last food, the last water?. But there’s still time to pull back from climate disaster, and this was a chance to do something positive.

 

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Ain't that the truth. 😎

Millions will perish under WEF and you focus on distraction, not sure how you thinks this won’t affect you?

Fueled by the media.Mainstream and social media.

So basically the last two years has been an experiment then

Example 1 = SmirkAndMirrors Example 2 = NineEntertainmentLNP Example 3 = auspol 'I move the member be no longer heard'

People to behave badly absolutely but think you forgot to mention how quickly politicians and bureaucrats turn on their communities for the sake of political arse covering

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