Thread: Climate Change and our Land of Fire, Flood and Drought.

Pointless exercise, really.
Garnaut is right that this country could become an economic superpower if we got smarter about embracing the many jobs adapting to climate change is already creating. Renewables create a lot of jobs, but they could create a lot more if we made more stuff here, not just panels, but the electronics and other equipment.
And I haven't even mentioned hydrogen yet. Just as we are now the world's biggest LNG exporter, we could also create a massive hydrogen industry. Japan is showing the way.
And our battery industry has huge potential to expand, as do many others.
Instead, we seem to run by people who think the height of our innovative abilities is to use 80% of Queensland's landmass to graze cows, often at such a low density as one animal per hectare, creating massive areas of degraded wasteland. What a waste!
Truly, we have to get a lot, lot smarter.

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

It's not all gloom and doom as Ross Garnaut points out in his new book "Superpower" Superpower by Ross Garnaut | Black Inc.

"‘The fog of Australian politics on climate change has obscured a fateful reality: Australia has the potential to be an economic superpower of the future post-carbon world.’—Ross Garnaut

You know, this is how I saw Australia progressing when I arrived in 2003. Convinced , but clearly naive.

It's been a political **** show.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Pointless exercise, really.
Garnaut is right that this country could become an economic superpower if we got smarter about embracing the many jobs adapting to climate change is already creating. Renewables create a lot of jobs, but they could create a lot more if we made more stuff here, not just panels, but the electronics and other equipment.
And I haven't even mentioned hydrogen yet. Just as we are now the world's biggest LNG exporter, we could also create a massive hydrogen industry. Japan is showing the way.
And our battery industry has huge potential to expand, as do many others.
Instead, we seem to run by people who think the height of our innovative abilities is to use 80% of Queensland's landmass to graze cows, often at such a low density as one animal per hectare, creating massive areas of degraded wasteland. What a waste!
Truly, we have to get a lot, lot smarter.

Garnaut has no understanding of economics. Who's going to buy products manufactured by paid employees, when the competition utilises prison and slave labour?

There may be a break in the drought from late Autumn 2020. Hopefully

http://www.nacp.org.au/static/climat...ok_2019-11.pdf

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Garnaut has no understanding of economics. Who's going to buy products manufactured by paid employees, when the competition utilises prison and slave labour?

Numerous Australian companies are designing and manufacturing here and exporting. For example, look at the 4WD companies who now do most of their sales overseas. Or Cochlear Ear or ResMed as world leaders in their fields. Or Australian education, now this country's number four export earner.
What's needed is real leadership to encourage more innovation and development.
Instead, all we get is more of the outdated 'fatten it up or dig it up and ship it out' mentality. It assumes anything else is too hard, when it's not. It's just a failure of leadership.

The World's biggest wind energy producer is moving into Australia. It's a start.


The world's biggest wind energy producer is moving into Australia with a hybrid solar and wind farm in SA

It's just a failure of leadership.

As I have said "Too many factions in Govt & opposition"


They are their own worst enemies.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Garnaut has no understanding of economics. Who's going to buy products manufactured by paid employees, when the competition utilises prison and slave labour?

Actually I’d suggest he’s pretty good with economics and knows nothing about climate.

His “trade” is economics, not a Scientist.