It’s undeniable the task facing Australia in meeting its 2035 emissions targets is vast. Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen last week described the shift from fossil fuels to renewables as no less than “the biggest economic transformation since the Industrial Revolution”.

The first National Climate Risk Assessment portrayed a bleak alternative if Australia failed to act, predicting thousands of Australians would die from heatwaves each year, 1.5 million homes would be at risk of rising sea levels and $611 billion would be wiped from home prices if urgent action was not taken to curb global emissions.

Professor David Karoly, who has studied climate science for 45 years, says it is easy to become depressed when we focus on the impacts of climate change, but says Australia and the internat

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