Recalling the inferno

There’s no better motivation for leaving fossil fuels in the ground than the scars left by Black Summer.

BRENTON KEEN is the emergency leader for Climate Action and former director of the Emergency Management Office in the South Australian Fire and Emergency Services Commission.
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FOUR YEARS AGO, I faced the biggest bushfires of my more than 40-year career in emergency management. Over the previous decade I’d increasingly focused my attention on the escalating risks Australia was facing due to climate change. But even then, the...

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