Our democracy has been bought. To win on climate, we have to take it back | Christine Milne

A majority of voters are in support of more government action on climate change - and yet somehow it's not an election issue. Let's make it one

The current dissonance between election campaign rhetoric and the facts of climate change is unfathomable, that is, until you dig a little deeper.

This month, the world passed a disastrous tipping point from which there will be no return: the Cape Grim Air Quality Monitoring Station registered a count of 400 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere. Climate scientists have acknowledged that there is basically no going back from this point. We are in a climate emergency.