If you want a good video that shows the entrenched problem with the fossil fuel industry that has the Australian political class captured: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZgoFyuHC8 (Honest Government Ad | Carbon Capture and Storage)
Australia has the capital and engineering capability to solve this. It’s not afraid of spending money for example it’s spending $50 billion on a suburban rail loop in Melbourne alone that has very questionable benefits (compared to alternatives). That would comfortably replace half their coal fired generation with base load nuclear for example. It would be very easy for them to change course and decarbonize their grid here if they had the political motivation.
Nuclear energy is attacked by environmental activists and the Greens party on a regular basis, ensuring it won't be an option in Australia.
Ironically, by attacking nuclear, you submit yourself to natural gas (barely better than coal) and batteries (non-renewable, expensive, mined by slaves etc).
This is why I roll my eyes whenever activists talk about renewable energy, knowing that as soon as you dig into their proposals you'll find filthy gas in the mix, or batteries. Nuclear, with it's extremely low deaths per kWh, is simply too dangerous we are told.
There's a large move away from fossil fuels for the average person. I see a lot of electric cars, solar panels, and shopping centers have electric charging.
There's only so much that can happen when both major political parties are owned by Rupert and the coal lobby.
Hell, the govt is funding a coal mine somewhere in NSW because all the major banks refused to.
Presented in satirical style, but they are basically stating the truth of how much we are governed by vested interests that capture profits whilst creating or perpetuating negative impacts for the vast majority of the population.
In the same vein, on iview (abc.net.au) Micallef's last few seasons on Mad as Hell are cutting pretty close to the bone also, exposing the ugly truths of our inept/corrupt politicians via humour.
IMHO we sadly have no honest or brave politicians to vote for in any of the parties that have a chance at forming government.
Is it? I thought mining was something like 6% of our GDP.
I suppose it doesn’t really matter if it is or isn’t our whole economy because either way it needs to stop; we need to stop voting in people who are happy to destroy the planet so they can further increase their personal wealth regardless.
You imply there's a political solution, while seemingly glossing over the fact that both major parties support gas-fired plants and building new gas-fired capacity to shore up energy supply.
Even the Greens oppose the only proven baseload power source that's also green -- nuclear. [1]
As recently as last year, the opposition party supported the construction of new gas plants. [2]
The entire Australian political establishment supports the construction of new non-renewable power generation capacity, on both sides.
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They're great!
Ironically, by attacking nuclear, you submit yourself to natural gas (barely better than coal) and batteries (non-renewable, expensive, mined by slaves etc).
This is why I roll my eyes whenever activists talk about renewable energy, knowing that as soon as you dig into their proposals you'll find filthy gas in the mix, or batteries. Nuclear, with it's extremely low deaths per kWh, is simply too dangerous we are told.
There's a large move away from fossil fuels for the average person. I see a lot of electric cars, solar panels, and shopping centers have electric charging. There's only so much that can happen when both major political parties are owned by Rupert and the coal lobby. Hell, the govt is funding a coal mine somewhere in NSW because all the major banks refused to.
Presented in satirical style, but they are basically stating the truth of how much we are governed by vested interests that capture profits whilst creating or perpetuating negative impacts for the vast majority of the population.
In the same vein, on iview (abc.net.au) Micallef's last few seasons on Mad as Hell are cutting pretty close to the bone also, exposing the ugly truths of our inept/corrupt politicians via humour.
IMHO we sadly have no honest or brave politicians to vote for in any of the parties that have a chance at forming government.
I suppose it doesn’t really matter if it is or isn’t our whole economy because either way it needs to stop; we need to stop voting in people who are happy to destroy the planet so they can further increase their personal wealth regardless.
My theory is that all the police state and surveillance stuff they carry on with is primarily to keep exploiting the country without disruption.
Even the Greens oppose the only proven baseload power source that's also green -- nuclear. [1]
As recently as last year, the opposition party supported the construction of new gas plants. [2]
The entire Australian political establishment supports the construction of new non-renewable power generation capacity, on both sides.
[1] https://greens.org.au/policies/nuclear-and-uranium
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/29/labor...
I wouldn't show up if I were them.