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United Nations climate policy has hijacked Australian population policy

By Stephen Saunders - posted Friday, 6 October 2023


But why would Albanese hurry? When Canada swoons over his "ambitious" climate action and Germany ushers him into their international Climate Club.

Pity TAI and experts didn't storm Fifth Avenue, to expose his hypocrisy. To reduce carbon footprint and expand welfare footprint, he could easily halt his highly unpopular population overload.

Our hairy-nosed wombats offer this thought experiment: Assume net zero's a robust concept. Assume we could even get there. Would that "save" Australia's environment? Nope, not under conditions of rapid population growth, native forest logging, laissez-faire land clearing, wanton species-crashes, poorly regulated rural irrigation, and urban-water profligacy.

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And yet, inside the beehive, this unthinking and uncritically adopted net-zero is suddenly the new black. The environmental no-brainer for the arid continent of climatic extremes and fragile soils – low population growth – is now dismissed as uncool and racist.

Deferring to UN climate and population propaganda, our "stakeholders" license Albanese's punitive population drive for years to come. Having piled on a crazy seven-million extra just since 2000, they'll chance Treasury's 14 million on top.

They don't care that their environment-eating Huge Australia inevitably widens inequality. Not while Treasury/ABS rates the "average Australian" as worth AUD$567, 632 , mostly tied up in housing.

Not while they can accrue virtue, via the multicultural family on the cover of the inequality report.

 

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