Alarmist Clive Hamilton: In an attempt to prevent bad weather, immigration to Australia should be cut by a factor of six

Hamilton: ‘Listen to the climate [junk] scientists’ | Green Left Weekly

Climate denial still needs to be exposed, resisted and ridiculed at every turn because there is no doubt that climate deniers have made great strides in recent times. It’s a highly effective movement, which has shifted the political ground and also has had a large impact on public perceptions.

They have pursued an explicit strategy of sowing doubt in the minds of the public and political leaders about the validity of climate science. They are very effective in Australia, and are particularly effective in the United States.
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My view is that we should cut immigration to Australia to about 50,000 a year, from the current levels of close to 300,000. And that 50,000 should be used to expand our humanitarian efforts, to expand the number of asylum seekers coming into Australia.

[This] would help reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions and help us better fulfil our humanitarian obligations.