Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock

Anna Krien

Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Black Inc.
Country
Australia
Published
13 June 2017
Pages
144
ISBN
9781863959216

Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia’s Climate Deadlock

Anna Krien

In this vivid, urgent essay, Anna Krien explores the psychology and politics of a warming world. She visits the frontlines of Australia’s climate wars - the Reef, the Galilee and Bowen basins, South Australia. She investigates the Adani mine, with its toxic politics and controversial economics. Talking to power workers and scientists, lobbyists and activists, she considers where climate change is taking us, and where effective action is to be found.

‘This was Turnbull’s moment, and the Liberal Party’s too. Not just the Snowy 2.0, but the whole thing - an ailing and dysfunctional grid, a complex issue, something for the 'adults’ to take responsibility for. But instead of leadership, Australians got politics as usual. Cheap shots, culture-war baiting, bad and good ideas lobbed like hot potatoes and lost in the trash talk of low-grade politics. After the ten-day policy spree, Turnbull resumed his poker face, continuing with his grim role of negotiating with the vipers in his nest.‘ – Anna Krien, The Long Goodbye

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