PM should listen more and talk less about emissions We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss April 21, 2021 — 12.05am Normal text size Credit: The Prime Minister continues to divide Australians on climate change with his disparaging and dismissive remarks about patrons of inner-city cafes, dinner parties and wine bars (“Industry key to Australia’s emissions target, not ‘inner-city dinner parties’: PM”, smh.com.au, April 20). Climate change is all of our concern, Prime Minister. Many of us in regional and rural Australia echo sentiments expressed by city dwellers. Scientists have been leading the way in communicating climate change knowledge to help us make decisions. The farming organisations are far ahead of the government in their approach to climate change. The PM would benefit by listening to, rather than alienating, school and university students and young people in all parts of Australia who share and articulate these concerns. They see their future looking increasingly grim because governments and many resource businesses continue to be motivated by short-term profits and not the long-term health of our planet.