Age: The preceding observation is from the federal government's first Intergenerational Report of 2002. It's a sensible and moderate comment. It was made 10 years after the UN convention in Rio de Janeiro on climate change, from which flowed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997.
The observation did not focus exclusively on climate change but on all types of management of the environment. By 2010, the Intergenerational Report was saying this: "Climate change is the largest threat to Australia's environment and...