Woodside’s 2050 aide-memoire: fake ‘net-zero’ is another scam for the political classes

Instead of moderating consumption growth, environmental decline, and population growth, wishful net-zero prolongs Australia's magical thinking and vigorous post-1788 environmental conversion.

The fuddled Coalition remains at sixes and sevens. Deposed-leader Dutton's predecessor, Scott Morrison, resisted the net-zero wafer-and-wine. He was rebuked by NSW Liberal climate-champion Matt Kean , now chair of Labor's CCA (Climate Change Authority). Coalition leader before that, Turnbull, is boilerplate net-zero. In stark contrast, 2009-2015 leader Tony Abbott aligns woke mind-virus and net-zero mind-virus.

Curiously, Dutton agreed to target nuclear net-zero not Liar-Albanese . Apparently, campaign HQ rated the latter ploy "unpersuasive". Now, triumphal ABC and left-media lecture Sussan Ley:

You toxic Abbott/News Corp puppets, climate wars are "over", only 8/88 metro seats are Coalition, read voters' memo , embrace net-zero "science".

Why the swelling pride Ms Tingle? With Australia's population heading for 40 million, emissions not actually falling, cities and countryside riven, now Woodside Albanese's corporate largesse plus emissions banquet.

To sticky-tape her Coalition together, Ley retains nuclear trappings, hampering her chances. Nuclear power is in 30 nations including US/China/India and hydrocarbon-poor France. It's a tough sell down here.

Even under a "renewables" not nuclear "net-zero", polls (as above) say ordinary Australians would rather have affordable energy/housing and low migration. You can't - chorus Coalition-Labor-Green-Teals.

Parties, here's the thing. Earth's (Australia's) degraded ecosphere could scarcely be worse off, had rising CO₂ and climate-change never been ballyhooed.

Consider the trillions of dollars, infinite ingenuity and labour, expended on this Potemkin UN façade of carbon research, planning, budgeting, mitigation, measurement, and markets. For how much (environmental) return on investment exactly?

Overpopulated, war-wracked Earth keeps registering record CO₂ emissions and CO₂ levels , also (US NASA agrees) more elevated temperatures. Add in the Sisyphean challenge of downsizing methane-levels and other greenhouse-gases - see this US EIA guide.

Thinking 2050, try to imagine an upbeat third reel for this global docudrama. Negative/zero population growth is normal not "racist", trashing of habitat/species is despised. In "sovereign" nations like Australia, the top 20% strives to rediscover that brief 20^th century idyll when democracies equalised.

A downbeat movie is far more likely. Still claiming degraded Earth "mitigates" and adapts, the UN-OECD-EU-IMF governance updates net-zero or "sustainable" goalposts. Equitable and inclusive consideration is offered for the diverse needs of ten billion identities. That's climate-woke eh.