How many more lives must be lost?

How many homes must be destroyed?

How many more farmers will need to be helped to leave an unproductive farm?

What more will it take for the Coalition government and Labor to realise that ‘Paris’ is not enough?

Reaching the Paris target was never aspirational – it was a bare minimum.

To be actually meeting that target has not been achieved because of government actions. It has been because the States and Territories are taking action, independently of the federal government, to develop renewable energy sources.

But even that is not enough.

Australia is inherently a dry country and has always been subject to droughts.

European farming methods are turning it into a desert.

If farmers want to abandon their farms, help them to do so and return the land to trees on a massive scale.

Ban growing water-hungry crops like cotton.

Stop seeing farming as a source of profit and accept that growing food for survival is more important.

We need policies which are proactive and aimed at survival, not reactive where greed is the main driver.

Stop thinking about the economy and start thinking about the well-being of living creatures – all species, not just mankind.

If we ever live long enough for the history if this period to be written, Coalition governments will be recorded as being responsible for doing too little, too late!

Other countries are making great strides. More are coming aboard as reality sinks in.

Those with dollar signs for eyes will destroy the lives of those that follow us if we do not act – now!

Governments must stop being blind and deaf to reality and recognise that we are facing the worst threat to existence that has ever been!

But don’t panic!

Act!