Re Cr Glenn Milne’s views (SD, September 9) in “Students’ climate ­rally is a day of class wasted”.

Cr Milne quotes the high absentee rate among Sunraysia school children. In the texts to the editor, there is an appeal for relief from the high cost of temporary water, while another article highlights the high suicide rate among our young.

The denial of climate change by people such as Cr Milne flies in the face of ever-increasing incidents of extreme weather, such as the current fires in nort...