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All types of enormities are allowed to propagate because, as George Orwell noted, “the fact that the average human being never bothers to examine catchwords”. From ‘No Human is Illegal on Stolen Land’ to ‘Trans Women are Women’: despite their clear absurdity, such catchwords enable the most dire social and political enormities when they’re parroted unquestioningly by vast numbers of people in a democracy.
One of the most destructive to Western security and prosperity, though, is ‘Climate Action Now!’
What, exactly, does that even mean? In practice, it’s given licence to the rampant idiocy of the likes of Australia’s “Climate Change and Energy Minister”, Chris ‘Boofhead’ Bowen. Bowen is flushing hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ money on ‘renewable energy’ (another un-examined catchword) projects that have achieved nothing except to drive out defence-critical heavy industries, make Australia’s power grid increasingly unreliable and send power bills through the roof.
Just like every developed country in the world that has thrown its lot in with wind and solar.
And the numpties who voted for it wonder why they’re suddenly paying through the roof to keep the lights on sometimes.
Nowhere is the chickens-coming-home-to-roost spectacle more delicious than on the NSW central coast. In Woy Woy, voters handed seats to Labor and environmental independents who campaigned hard on aggressive “climate action”. They got it. Now they’re discovering what it actually costs.
In September 2022, [Charlie Killorn] paid $412 for a quarterly electricity bill. In 2025, her September bill came to an eye-watering $1506. Her most recent bill in March this year was $893. She is expecting it to go up over winter.
The Killorn family already cashed in on the taxpayer-funded solar panel bonanza that was supposed to make everything cheap and green. Seventeen panels on the roof once kept bills near zero in the better months. Not any more.
“We used to only ever get a bill in the winter months,” she says. “It was always very low, sometimes even $100 a quarter. Over the last 12 months, the bills have just gone up by hundreds and hundreds of dollars.”
Now, stop and think for a minute just why that is. Did she really think she’d miraculously escape the remorseless logic of wind and solar driving up power bills everywhere else they’ve been tried?
Has she ever also stopped to consider that, when the price of energy goes up, the price of everything goes up? Or that making the diesel fuel that farms run on and the natural gas that makes fertilisers more expensive just might make food production more costly? Did she think those costs weren’t going to get passed on at the checkout?
It gets even more head-on-bench smackingly worse. Killorn demands that “the government needs to step in on the electricity companies”. She appears to have forgotten that the government already has: a regulatory landscape expressly designed to make coal-fired power stations too expensive to maintain and selling gas overseas more lucrative than using it in Australia (at the same time as the government is banning gas appliances). Billions in rebates, solar subsidies and market distortions were deployed precisely to hide the real cost of Bowen’s renewables fantasy for as long as possible. Those bandaids are peeling off. The true price of unreliable wind and solar, coal plant closures and net-zero virtue-signalling is finally landing.
The same pattern is playing out across Labor heartlands. Families who cheered the green transition are now watching their quarterly notices climb into four figures while their solar panels sit there looking decorative on cloudy days. The temporary price suppression that masked the disaster can’t last forever. Sooner or later the bill for closing reliable baseload and pretending intermittent power is a serious energy strategy comes due.
They wanted ‘climate action now!’. They’ve got it. They can stop whining about the consequences of their voting actions.
