Well done Sussan Ley and her party on finally coming to a consensus (shared by most of the world, incidentally) that it is pointless to set a net-zero target we can’t meet without destroying Australia in the process.
This point of difference will help the LNP, as most major economies — except the poor, hopeless Poms, it seems — are realising that you can’t get to net zero without damaging your economy. And with around 60% of the world continuing to build more coal-fired power stations, as well as gas and nuclear facilities, our contribution of 1% of global emissions makes no difference at all.
China has increased its emissions in the last two or three years from 30% to 32% of the world’s emissions. The big polluters — China, the USA, India and Russia — think we are hopeless suckers, and they are correct. China continues to use our coal to make wind turbines (which now, it seems, contain asbestos too) for export back to Australia.
Shamefully, the Greens and the ALP federal government are trying to shut down any competing views on this. When Australia reverts to a second- or third-world country in the next 10 to 15 years as a result, you will know who to blame.
Just picture the environmental damage caused by thousands of kilometres of prime agricultural land, native forests and pristine mountain ranges being cleared to build 300-metre-high wind turbines, or by millions of hectares of farmland being taken over by solar farms. Further, wind turbines have a shelf life of about 15 years before needing replacement; solar farms last around 20 years. It’s madness.
Still, there are vested interests who are making — and stand to make — a fortune from government-subsidised clean-energy projects, and they appear to have captured the various left-wing and Green-aligned think tanks advising governments. Who funds the Teals, for example, or the Australia Institute?
These questions need to be asked, and Susan Ley and the LNP need to pursue this issue like a dog with a bone. If they do, day in and day out, who knows — the LNP may still have an outside chance of winning the next federal election.
Wake up, Australia. How many businesses will be destroyed, how many koalas killed, and how much native habitat ruined as a result of this madness?
China has the right idea. President Xi said recently, “China will not get rid of the old until the new is ready to replace it.” Sensible man. Ley now has to sell her policies and overcome several decades of perhaps unwitting indoctrination of our young by hapless and largely clueless academics and school teachers. Good luck, Susan.
In other news, I saw with interest a government report stating that Australia cannot defend itself from invasion and cannot defend itself from missile attack. An all-party House of Commons Committee has reached the same conclusion regarding the near-total lack of defence effort in the UK. In both our countries, the conservatives/LNP and Labour/Labor parties are to blame. In both countries it’s butter before guns all the time. Human nature being what it is, it’s not a case of if there is a war, but when.
