Megan Herbert highlights the contradiction at the Rising Tide protest blockade at the world's largest coal exporting port, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia , where 170 people were arrested .
More than 150 million tonnes of coal pass through the port each year , 2200 ships berthed there in 2012-13.
Add to this scenario Trump's threat to pull out of the Paris agreement , scientists in Hobart recently warning about the danger of the Antarctica ice shelf melting causing huge sea level rises that would flood Australian coastal areas , tundra thawing releasing carbon dioxide in the Arctic circle, the release of fossilised methane , the Cop 29 conference climate funding branded an optical illusion. Merry Christmas.
(Coal, Blockade , Australia .)
