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Sydney | Climate change | Kevin Rudd | Politics | November 2009

Climate change denialism and the challenges ahead. Kevin Rudd

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"It is time to remove any polite veneer from this debate... The overwhelming need for Australia to tackle the great challenge of our generation is being frustrated by the do-nothing climate change sceptics".

In his major speech to the Lowy Institute, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd takes aim at the goals and methods of climate change denialists and sceptics in Australia and around the world. He outlines a typography of the different schools opposing action on climate change then attacks the arguments that each employ to avoid taking substantial action; then he names those individuals and parties he believes are most responsible for preventing the actions necessitated by global scientific, economic and environmental realities. Lowy Institute, November 2009

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Lowy Institute

Duration: 30m 55s