Yeh it’s amazing how people can point to China as a sort of eco warrior country. Because they say they are doing xyz about climate change.
China never tells fibs hey?
Yeah, either you deliberately misinterpret what I am saying, or you are just thick.
No-one is pointing to China being some sort of saint in relation to global warming. What I have repeatedly pointed out, is that China, even with their reliance on coal and their slow movement on doing anything about global warming, have better policies than Australia does. Think about that (if you are capable) - China are crap on global warming, but we're even worse.
Here's an example of how bad Australia is:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57925798
A couple of salient points from this article:
Only Indonesia sells more coal than Australia globally.
The government often credits coal for much of the country's wealth, but many analysts argue this is overblown.
Coal exports totalled A$55bn (£29bn; $40bn) last year, but most of this wealth was kept by mining companies. Less than a tenth went to Australia directly - that's about 1% of national revenue.
That's right folks, we're the second biggest coal exporter in the world. That this is monumentally stupid given coal is going to phase out and we'll be left with an economy reliant on exporting something no-one wants.
It gets even dumber (is that even possible, well, yes with f*ckwits running the show) when you consider:
Tax subsidies: About A$10bn went to fossil fuel companies last year alone
Do the sums, $AU55billion in coal exports, of which 10% (at best) stays in Australia, which equals $AU5.5billion revenue staying here. Meanwhile we spend $AU10billion subsidising the industry. We are paying to be stranded with an unviable export.
There is no other way to describe this except monumentally stupid.
But, let's not leave it there.
We might have an excuse if we had no alternatives. But, we are probably the best placed country in the world to generate energy from renewables. Vast tracts of land, massive amounts of sunshine, huge coastline which is windy (when the f*ckwits allow offshore wind . . . eventually). FFS there is an absolute gift staring us in the face and we ignore it.
Monumentally stupid.
DS