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Inna Tsyrlin is the current editor of Lot's Wife at Monash University (Clayton), and is completing her bachelor in commerce/economics.
A visiting Dutch environmental economist says it may be too late to expect governments to wake up to the dire need to make and implement adequate policies. He says it is time for us to "work on our government", rather than wait for the government to work on us, to change the way we live.