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Australia’s greenhouse emissions are a national disgrace that are destroying the planet and costing households | Greg Jericho (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] asg101@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

The planet has gone through extinction events before, it will abide. Humans not so much. The oligarchs are sending us all to the ovens, never forget.

[–] autotldr 1 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

This rise should receive just as much attention and scrutiny as would the GDP figures next week if they showed the economy had gone backwards – they are a national disgrace.

When you read the minister’s media release stating that “Australia’s emissions are now 24.4 per cent below June 2005 levels” you might think we’re doing well.

Including land use in the figures (something Australia fought very hard at the UN climate change conferences to ensure we could) makes the drop rather easier to achieve:

And let me use the total of emissions that includes land use, just to highlight how bad things are even when using the measure the government would like us to judge them by.

And while this is causing an existential threat that should have everybody taking to the streets demanding more action from the government (including, for example, demanding the government release reports on the impact of climate change on national security) climate change also affects our current largest economic crisis of cost of living.

On Tuesday night, the incoming governor of the Reserve Bank, Michele Bullock, gave a speech on climate change and Australia’s economy.

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