Now that the focus on climate change is shifting from prevention, to containment, to hopefully adaption, our neighbours in the Pacific, with their feet in salt water, are justifiably asking for help from their wealthy neighbour, whose Labor government is much busier increasing the risk to these island communities by excessively contributing to the climate change problem.
Let’s remember Suzuki’s ‘Think Globally’.
Let’s also look at the random events of unkindness. Who’s next for unprecedented fires, deadly hot days, floods, sliding glaziers, cyclones, crops famers can’t grow anymore. Can we seriously fear being left behind (from what) if we don’t host giant data centres powered by massive amounts of the gas we don’t export?
Climate change is getting politically unfixable. Let’s start focusing on where there might be some politicians we can vote for who will start working out how we can adapt and live more safely with the changes we can’t even imagine – and globally help other communities to do likewise. We owe this much to the little people we have produced and keep producing.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
