Jonathan Strauss argues that the emergency society faces is whether or not governments will act on the well-known evidence of the devastating impact of catastrophic climate change.
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Australia recently gained an unenviable title: perhaps the first country to lose a mammal species to climate change. The Bramble Cay Melomys, a native rodent found on one tiny sand island in the remote northern regions of the Great Barrier Reef, reportedly became extinct after rising seas destroyed its habitat.