The myriad of compromises embedded into the green frontier continue to be avoided because of the immediate threat posed by the alternative — a fossil fuel-induced ecological collapse.
That alternative is the here and now. It is the vengeful wildfires, once figments of filmmakers’ imaginations, becoming mainstays of Australian summers. It’s our world-leading rate of mammal extinctions. It’s the Torres Strait Islands being engulfed by advancing seas. And it’s ancestral beings like the Murray-Darling Basin, an epic life support system which has roared for millennia, proportionately being strangled
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