'You can't offset your way out of emissions' - for once a Teal gets it right.

Are we hearing any of this glum news from the industries themselves? After all, they should be best positioned to know.

Not really. They earnestly proclaim they're tackling the job. They can seem genuinely optimistic. However in the current atmosphere they are unlikely to confess publicly that they don't know what to do. The consequences are clear. Shame, even punishment, awaits them.

Sound energy/climate policy should recognise the bind facing essential industries with no practical alternatives to using fossil fuels, like air travel, fertilisers, explosives, plastics. For those, offsets act as penalties that won't affect emissions. Policies that could only force those industries out of business reflect wishful thinking rather than facts and logic.

You can't offset your way out of an industry crisis.