Woke net zero targets will weaken us

The net zero plan being presented at the moment is not a plan, it is a prayer. It is a big prayer that hydrogen will one day fall down from heaven like manna. The Prime Minister may very well believe in miracles, but I don't think we should be gambling people's jobs based on the existence of them.

The other major reason we should reject net zero is that it is a massive distraction against the major threat to our country: China.

President Xi Jinping is not even attending the Glasgow conference. In fairness to him, I am not sure how he could keep a straight face while the west commits collective economic suicide.

China does not care about climate change action. They are the world's largest emitter, they have not done anything to cut their carbon emissions and useful idiots in the west want people to take China's net zero target by 2060 seriously. We can not trust China to keep their promises under trade agreements, we can not trust China to do a proper investigation of the origins of the coronavirus, but we can, apparently, trust China to handicap their own industry and get to net zero! Good luck with that.

While we have been distracted with the net zero madness, this week China demonstrated the world's first nuclear-capable, hypersonic missile. According to the Financial Times, the missile test “caught US intelligence by surprise.”

China now has space nukes but they can't match us on plans to reach net zero.

Europe has been one of the few places in the world manfully trying to reach net zero. How has that worked out for them? Europe has banned fracking, closed coal and nuclear power stations and has built lots of wind turbines. Now a wind drought has hit and some are laughably calling this "global stilling" and blaming it on climate change too.

European energy prices have soared, there are huge lines at petrol stations and factories have closed. Europe's energy needs have been outsourced to an authoritarian Russian regime that supplies them gas when Putin decides to. And, by the way, Putin has not committed to attend Glasgow yet either.

In a comical irony, basic food items have run out because of shortages of carbon dioxide! You need gas to make carbon dioxide, which is used as a refrigerant gas essential for the transportation of food from the country to the city. The gas price surge has forced the UK government to bail out its major producer of carbon dioxide, CF Fertilisers. The UK is at serious risk of running out of food for the first time since World War II.

We may very well be on the cusp of World War III. That is not something I want but our top defence officials told us this was a risk when they justified the ripping up of a submarines contract with the French, and instead get nuclear submarines from the US and UK.

Thanks to COVID, Australia has the biggest government debt since World War II, our power prices have gone from the cheapest in the world to some of the most expensive and now we are turning our back on our indigenous sources of coal and gas, to instead rely on imports of solar panels and wind turbines from ... China! You can't make this stuff up.

Net zero emissions will make it harder to defend Australia.