14 January 2020
Greenhouse gaslighting: Scott Morrison’s emotional manipulation from climate apathy to fake empathy
The Prime Minister’s stalwart coal fetish has driven us into the arms of disaster, and his new stance, a flailing façade of empathy, seems to be backfiring. But it’s not that Morrison is unemotional, writes Blanche Verlie. These are deliberate acts of emotional manipulation — but we can fight back by asserting that our distress about climate change is legitimate.
