One of the things that should be obvious is that action on climate change is a mainstream, central issue - the need for action, and the nature of that action, and the speed of that action - should be a discussion that brings us together in common cause...
Instead, it used by the political parties - primarily the Coalition and the Greens - as a political tool to create division. You can see the centrist forces backing climate action within the many Voices of independent candidates. Life-long, small l liberals who want action.
These people aren’t being spoken to by the larger parties. They’re being called radicals by the coalition; and not activist enough by the Greens. Labor is silent for fear of getting caught in the cross-fire.
It’s a frustration that got me motivated to join politics in 2019, and saw me join the @AustDems in 2020, because they firmly sit within that mainstream, centrist band of the Australian population who just want to see some common sense brought to bear on these issues.
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