More fuel burning emits more carbon dioxide. Accumulating carbon dioxide traps more heat in the air. Warmer air holds more water vapour. Denser water vapour results in more rain. More rain results in more flooding, erosion and plant growth. Thickening growth supports wild fires. Fires and floods damaged housing. Damaged housing causes extra expenditure.
Extra expenditure reduces wealth. Reduced wealth drains investment in transformative energy: renewables, storage batteries, and electric vehicles. Drained investment in transformative energy continues the purchase of more fossil fuels. Purchase of more fossil fuels supports more fossil fuels. And that’s how we fall into the climate catastrophe loop.
When will you break your loop?
No need to look to pm Ablo for breaking the loop, he is just as addicted to staying in the fossil fuel burning loop as his LibNat buddies. We just had an election where the Lab and LibNat Duopoly were virtually silent on climate and environment. Another 3 years of hard-Labor sponsored climate catastrophe events is needed to finally wake up – you get the government that you deserve.
Yes, and the so-called ‘greens’ are not only silent on the transport needs of the community and millions of tourists, but actively supporting the multi-million cost of public funds destroying multi-billion-dollar critical public transport infrastructure-the rail line-to spend tens of millions on a bike track which is not used in wet weather, or cyclones, and increases traffic. It doesn’t take one fossil fuel burning gas guzzler off our roads.
Really great for the climate and environment, not to mention the public cost of rebuilding homes and infrastructure after every climate disaster.
Nothing green about that.
Give it a rest Louise. The council is not silent on transport needs. They are actively pursuing improved bus services. They also know there is nothing “green” about a running trains to nowhere for a handful of passengers. The trainiacs who wasted years and hundreds of thousands of ratepayer funds on the futile nonsense are no longer on council.
Trains are not going to be returning to the derelict, half demolished steam age anachronism that could never meet modern transport needs or the regulations governing railways. Nobody is going to fund it. Everyone on council knows this and is supporting the trail. The only Byron council candidate who supported retaining the railway was humiliated at the election. The electors don’t care about the railway because it would be useless to them.
The trail has people using it every day, rain or shine. The only time nobody was on it was when it was formally closed for for repairs in the week after the cyclone. User numbers would have now passed a quarter of a million in the two years since the first section opened.
Please explain? This term is when more progress towards net zero is possible with a government that truly wants to transform our energy production. Not the fantasy nuclear option of the noalition and the fantasy policies of the greens political party which has no concept of transition, ie unfortunately coal can’t be turned off immediately.
“Please explain?”, Labor’s fossil fuel loving ways explains it all – 30 coal and gas approvals in 3 years; ‘Sea Dumping’ legislation passed with the help of pm Aldo’s great mates / LibNat buddies; $’staxpayerbillions for Middle Arm Gas Hub and Wallumbilla Gas Hub; Future Gas Strategy 2050and Beyond; Woodside2070, the dumping of Climate Trigger, EPA and EPBC…..
After all the big climate and environment talk from pm Ablo, people wonder why Australia’s GHG emissions reductions have gone nowhere in the three years of Ablo hard-Labor under. It is a clear and deliberate actions by pm Ablo to keep the fossil fuel industry alive and thriving for decades and decades to come.
You do know Joachim last year more renewable energy was added than the proposed nuclear power of the noalition. Anyway you do know what the term transition means?
Rod, it makes absolutely no difference what we tell this clown, he thinks that he is on a mission from God.
Rod, please tell us more about GHG emissions reductions gone nowhere under 3 years of Ablo led hard-Labor. Your transition thing is working a real treat – 30 new coal and gas approvals, ‘Sea Dumping Bill’ legislation, $’sbillions for Gas Industry Infrastructure, The Beetaloo frackup gathering pace, Barossa Gas Project to come online soon, Woodside2070 about to be unleashed, Future Gas Strategy 2050andBeyond and now Santos Pilliga Gas Project with a win. We can see where this mythical transition of yours is heading – straight from one fossil fuel, Coal, to the other fossil fuel, Gas. And isn’t the Fossil Fuel Industry thoroughly delighted with Lab ( and LibNat ).
What Australians can now rejoice at, and look forward to is another three years of Labor sponsored climate change policy and a continuing, orderly transition to a renewable future, hopefully free of coal fired Coalition sponsored climate wars, and extremist Green Political Games Party grandstanding.
…more Coal and Gas, yay, NOT, the fossil fuel loving Labor Political Games Party.
The Aussie voters seem to agree with Labor policies, how are the Greens fairing, or what’s left of them, OUCH.