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> But, and this is a big one: how much energy will this need?

It's an interesting thought, Australia is in a good position to leverage renewable energy however the boats would be burning diesel. It's one of those "Futurism meets reality" issues, where grand ideas fall apart in application.

Scott Morrison is a muppet, and the Federal Government has their head burried in a pile of coal. We're extremely well suited to curb emissions and we should. Let me preface the below with that.

I have no faith that we will, as a global society, curb emissions. There are too many players benefiting, and newcomers who seek to benefit from the same dirty industrialization the west did. At no point in history have we ever come together as a globe on any topic whatsover, so I don't understand why we think we will now. So I think we should be focusing on developing the technology to remediate this mess, from all the different angles that make sense. Alongside reducing emissions obviously, carbon taxes, carbon rebates, whatever it takes.

But we're way down shit creek already, and our paddle looks like Scott Morrison, so we better start coming up with better ideas than politics.