Another example from today's #qt Morrison: "Hazard reduction is important, if not more important,
than emissions reduction, when it comes to protecting people from fire and hotter, dryer longer summers in the future". Let's look at that statement quickly.
than emissions reduction, when it comes to protecting people from fire and hotter, dryer longer summers in the future". Let's look at that statement quickly.
The first thing to say to that is it is ALL important. Mitigation. Harm minimisation. Adaptation. It's all got to happen. Now you can say hazard reduction is most important if you like, even though that's a value judgment, not a fact.
But the problem with hazard reduction is it has become much harder to do in an environment where climate change is making the environment hotter and drier. It is becoming more dangerous to carry out harm minimisation. So this cycle feeds itself. It's all connected.
So the obvious riposte to *hazard reduction is the most important objective* is what are you doing prime minister to ensure that's a safe practice? Which brings us back to the (allegedly) less critical emissions reduction #qt
