Recently elected Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and other climate change-denying politicians should be charged with “criminal negligence” for their “willful blindness,” climate expert and environmental activist David Suzuki stated in separate public appearances during a trip to Australia this week.
Abbot, who is known for his climate change denialism, came into power this month and almost immediately axed Australia’s national climate watchdog, the Climate Commission. He has also promised to toss out the country’s carbon-trading program.
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On two separate occasions Suzuki called out Abbott and like-minded politicians for “very, very dangerous” denialism, beginning with a speech at the University of NSW on Saturday in which he accused Abbott of “criminal negligence,” adding that the ultra-rich are also to blame for pushing denialism in the never-ending quest for profit:
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