4 March

At the lower end of the projections, a quarter of a million Australians may die of coronavirus. Similarly, one projected climate model this week predicts that all of humanity could become extinct by 2050, if projections of a 4-degree warming come true (we're currently tracking towards that, and even higher). Given that people tend to react either with claims of 'alarmism', or with a sort of fatalist 'she'll be right' indifference, what's a public administration to do? Many people simply refuse to get off their arses and actually think through a problem.