Tackling climate change could bring about positive structural and cultural changes not seen since the postwar period, an academic says.
Sociologist Michael Pusey said measures to cut greenhouse gas pollution were a unique opportunity to build the nation rather that constraining development.
"It is likely that a constructive adaptation to global warming will give rise to structural and cultural changes of a kind that we last saw in the aftermath of World War II," Professor Pusey, from the University of NSW's School of Social Sciences, said.
"Economic history teaches us that war transforms the relations between the economy, political culture and the state."
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