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How Australia’s Election Could Save the World (But Won’t)
Climate is front and center in campaign rhetoric. But the future of fossil fuels will be decided by the country’s trade partners.
Lump of coal.
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If there’s one issue at the center of Australia’s general election Saturday, it’s climate.
The opposition Labor party will “prioritize real action on climate change,” its leader Bill Shorten said in a speech in western Sydney Thursday. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who once brandished a lump of coal in parliament to show his backing of the country’s mining industry, promised the same day to end the “climate wars.”