The political aptitude for change is very, very strange here in Australia.
I could talk a lot about this but the abridged version is that our farmers are experiencing severe drought or severe flooding, and the political party that claims to represent regional Australians (farmers) want’s to discard our emissions targets all together.
As in, we’ve tried nothing and it’s not working so best we just double down on doing nothing. Thankfully these particular idiots are not likely to form government any time soon but they still represent a significant portion of the nation.
Meanwhile, renewables everywhere are surging ahead, everyone is installing roof-top solar, turbines being erected on farms, we’re building huge hydrogen production facilities, and it’s largely just ignored or worse - people complaining about how it’s unsightly or noisy or the grid doesn’t like it or whatever.
Yeah, I really struggle to understand it. No-one in the energy industry supports nuclear as far as I can tell and yet people can’t see that the Nationals are pushing it as a way to avoid actually doing anything about climate. It’s like the Nationals want to make themselves irrelevant by intentionally (through stupidity, willful ignorance or sheer disingenuousness) harming their constituents.
Honestly I think it’s simply that “nuclear” is a one-word solution to a complex problem that doesn’t require anyone to interrupt their view of the rolling landscape with a noisy turbine. If you start there then you can build up a narrative around how nuclear is the only sensible solution but it’s still just vibe-based reasoning.
The political aptitude for change is very, very strange here in Australia.
I could talk a lot about this but the abridged version is that our farmers are experiencing severe drought or severe flooding, and the political party that claims to represent regional Australians (farmers) want’s to discard our emissions targets all together.
As in, we’ve tried nothing and it’s not working so best we just double down on doing nothing. Thankfully these particular idiots are not likely to form government any time soon but they still represent a significant portion of the nation.
Meanwhile, renewables everywhere are surging ahead, everyone is installing roof-top solar, turbines being erected on farms, we’re building huge hydrogen production facilities, and it’s largely just ignored or worse - people complaining about how it’s unsightly or noisy or the grid doesn’t like it or whatever.
Yeah, I really struggle to understand it. No-one in the energy industry supports nuclear as far as I can tell and yet people can’t see that the Nationals are pushing it as a way to avoid actually doing anything about climate. It’s like the Nationals want to make themselves irrelevant by intentionally (through stupidity, willful ignorance or sheer disingenuousness) harming their constituents.
Honestly I think it’s simply that “nuclear” is a one-word solution to a complex problem that doesn’t require anyone to interrupt their view of the rolling landscape with a noisy turbine. If you start there then you can build up a narrative around how nuclear is the only sensible solution but it’s still just vibe-based reasoning.