Australians should be angry about another year of climate inaction. But don’t let your anger turn into despair

‘We know from the experience of the 2019-2020 bushfires that the disaster in LA won’t change policy by the major players, nor will it change the minds of con-artist deniers. But let us not be limited by them.’ Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images

2025 has not started well, and you should be bloody angry.

We are less than five months from the federal election and both major parties’ climate change policies are an amalgam of indolence and lies.