[perpetuallunch]

No it hasn’t.

What it has done is resulted in ridiculously high electricity prices, such that manufacturing anything in this country has become progressively less viable.

The Net Zero story sold to Australians is, and always was always will be, complete bs, as evidenced by three facts:

1) It’s no longer the narrative, because “data centres”

and

2) even when it was the narrative, it was always bs because Australia exports huge amounts of gas, and a metric ship load of coal, so other countries can have affordable electricity. So why don’t we just use it. There’s only one atmosphere.

and

3) Australia could double or triple its emissions and it would have approximately no additional impact on total atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

We haven’t reduced our emissions, we’ve merely exported them.

In before you say “shut up Pauline”, yes I did vote One Nation at the last federal election.

And if you’re so sure I’m just drowning in koolaid, how certain are you you aren’t?

Remember the good old days when governments weren’t to be trusted and we criticised them when they laid out idiotic policy?

[vvbull]

Australia emits 1-1.5% of greenhouse gases. Tripling that would absolutely impact global concentrations, especially over human time scales.

But agree, Australia exporting fossil fuels should be reflected. If you counted their export of fuels it would be closer to 5% of global emissions.

IMO, getting to zero would knock over a whole integer percent off the global goal, that's notable. And if you stopped exporting oil, we'd be 1/20th of the way to the goal already!

[perpetuallunch]

Your argument seems to boil down to:

What we’re doing isn’t working, so let’s do more of it.

There’s a cost of living crisis in this country effecting the majority of Australians.

So let’s make energy more scares, more expensive.

I’m with Gad Saad here, in that the one thing that astounds me the most about other people is their inability to change their opinions in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

[hahahaa]

Yeah every non-China nation can say "everyone else should do it, we is little, China should do it"

Problem with pollution is it is easy to overpollute but in the other direction realistically zero is the limit. Unless we go wartime funding on recapturing carbon.

[techbrovanguard]

shut up, pauline