If the Climate Cult really – and I mean, really, truly – believed their own hype, they would behave very differently than they conspicuously do. After all, if you really believed that, unless everyone, but everyone, did absolutely everything in their power to lower their carbon emissions, no matter how small, the world was doomed to imminent disaster, well… you’d live as if that were true.
Yet, even the most hysterical climate alarmists conspicuously fail to live up to the millenarian hype of their own rhetoric.
The UN’s climate chief has declared Australia will let the world “overheat” and fruit will be a “once-a-year treat” if Labor does not lift its clean-energy ambitions, as Anthony Albanese prepares to trumpet an ambitious emissions target to world leaders in his bid to host the next global green summit […]
The top climate diplomat – who will meet Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen in Canberra on Tuesday – also warned unambitious interim targets would lead to a nosedive in Australia’s “high living standards” and make the current grocery price crisis “look like a picnic”.
“Mega-droughts (will make) fresh fruit and veg a once-a-year treat. In total, the country could face a $6.8 trillion GDP loss by 2050,” [Simon Stiell] warned at an event hosted by the Smart Energy Council in Sydney on Monday.
Australia’s share of global emissions is just 1.3 per cent. China’s is 35 per cent. Australia could cease all carbon dioxide emissions tomorrow and China would more than make up the shortfall in just a week. India and the US are not far behind, although the US, like Australia, is the only one to have lowered its emissions: China and India’s are rising sharply.
Yet, the thundering pulpit-thumping biblical rhetoric from Stiell is notably absent when he addresses gatherings in China and India.
Note all that: for a former tinpot panjandrum from the tiny boondocks of Grenada, Mr Stiell sure gets around. In just the past 12 months, he has at least visited Wuhan, Delhi, Azerbaijan, Bonn, New York and now Sydney. That’s a whole lot of air miles.
Taking just those known flights into account, and assuming Mr Stiell commutes to and from UN headquarters in New York, that puts his annual carbon footprint from flying alone well above 50,000 tonnes of CO2. Which puts his personal carbon footprint higher than at least 10 entire nations.
Does anyone, then, really believe that he genuinely believes his own hysterical rhetoric?
From cabinet rooms to boardrooms, from farms to factories to kitchen tables – you know unchecked climate change is an economic wrecking ball. You know half-measures will destroy property and infrastructure, hammer households, bankrupt regions, and punch holes in public budgets. And you know that real action opens the door to real leadership – and big rewards for this ambitious, capable country.
Then live as if you mean it, you grasping, towering, absolute hypocrite.
If you’re going to exhort the rest of us to ‘lead by example’, then – you go first.
Otherwise shut your stinking piehole.
