Tackling climate chaos

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The only hope for stopping climate change is the political movement fostered by the recent Climate Action Summit and the groups forming all over the country, according to author Clive Hamilton at a February 25 meeting at the University of Western Australia.

Hamilton criticised the reverence accorded to the pursuit of economic growth since the 1970s and was scathing of the federal government's proposed emissions trading scheme.

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