Woke net zero targets will weaken us

There is one final reason for the Liberal National Party to oppose net zero emissions. Over the past decade, the LNP has rightfully stood against the radical carbon emissions cuts that would weaken Australia's economy and security. We have won every election fought on this basis - Labor were only returned in 2010 on the back of country independents, whose voters clearly did not support a carbon tax. And when we went soft on these issues at the 2016 election, we came within one seat of losing.

At the last election, Angus Taylor, Josh Frydenberg, Scott Morrison, me and many others warned that Labor's proposed 45 per cent reduction in carbon emissions would wreck the Australian economy. Two years later we are set to turn around and say, actually, it will all be fine. And, in fact we got it so wrong, that we will make lots of money from a 100 per cent cut in emissions! Sorry about that Bill Shorten.

Kevin Rudd lost his Prime Ministership the day he dropped his carbon tax scheme. He did so because the polling told him it had become unpopular. The problem was a year before he had said that "climate change was the greatest moral challenge of our time". Rudd never regained the trust of the Australian people.

The LNP is looking over this "Rudd precipice". Will we stand by our principles and the people that gave up their free time and money to support us? Or will we become the conservative version of Kevin Rudd, an empty, poll driven kite, that blows with the wind rather than stands against it when it is right to do so?

The most pathetic example of the west's decline this week was the House of Windsor's cringe-worthy diatribes against world leaders. Some leaders have the gall to prioritise the development of their poor countries (that the UK once ruled and left poor), instead of returning to the mother country to kiss the ring at Glasgow. The only reason the small British isles off the coast of Europe ended up ruling the world was because they were the first to harness the energy of coal through the Industrial Revolution. The Poms now lecture others that are using that same coal to bring their people out of poverty.

If only we could harness such hypocrisy and turn it into electricity, climate change would be solved. Thanks to climate change activists there is an endless supply of it.

The monarchy has gone woke just like every other corporation. These people agree with Kevin Rudd and view climate change as a "moral" challenge. For the secular west it has replaced religion. In this way, climate change activism has become the new "white man's burden". As the enlightened people of the world, it has fallen on the rich, white nations of the world to correct the sins of their former colonies.

This is how wokeism is far from harmless. Lots of woke obsessions are complete BS, but their advocates have a puritan streak which makes woke policies, that on first blush appear to be just a joke, a punishing reality. That is why, as someone else pointed out recently, everything woke turns to ...

The net zero emissions BS will turn out no different.