Article YE30 Like cheap Christmas gift wrap, environmental laws fail to protect against key climate threat

Like cheap Christmas gift wrap, environmental laws fail to protect against key climate threat

by
Graham Readfearn
from on (#YE30)

The approval of large-scale coal projects in Queensland expressly ignores the threat to the world's climate posed by burning vast amounts of fossil fuels

The laws politicians tell us are there to protect our environment can seem as pointless as the cheap Christmas giftwrap covering that bottle of wine you just bought for your least favourite uncle.

"Surprise surprise, Uncle Douchebag. It's a bottle of $4.99 shiraz."

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