And that’s a small one in comparison to many of what are being built over that period.
Yep. They also landed a contract for 2 new mega packs in WA last week.
We need to start investing in water security now.
Those that are supporting going Nuclear now in Australia are a few decades late.
And should disqualify them from running for government
I can’t wrap my head around people that are opposed to AUKUS on the basis of nuclear waste but also pro-nuclear energy transition
That’s because they’re not supporting nuclear, they are supporting anything that will slow down or disrupt the inevitable shift to renewables.
Dutton isn’t stupid, he’s a cagey, nasty husk of a man with an obvious agenda that the media refuses to call him on.
And that’s one of the reasons why I stopped voting LNP.
We need to start doing EVERYTHING now.
We need to have a transition plan for when the Reef tourist trade dies. We need to be reinforcing buildings everywhere as far south as the Gold Coast to withstand tropical cyclones that used to be 1000 year events but will become routine. We badly need to be reinvesting land into wetlands etc to act as shock absorbers for riverine floods. We need to stop operating on the assumption that just because land has been usable farmland for the last couple of centuries, it will remain so for even another decade. We need to seriously address the looming crisis when the repair bills for climate disasters either drive the entire insurance industry to the wall, or make insurance unaffordable for all but a tiny few. We need to be prepared for massive abrupt disaster-driven homelessness events and the massed destruction of housing stocks. We need established, reliable legislation that allows the govt to override food export contracts in the event of shortages locally.
My entire adult life, governments have treated climate as a media annoyance to be spun rather than a serious issue to be addressed with policy. I mean, even the fkg ALP is still pinning their emissions policy on CCS, which has had enormous sums sunk into it for decades and has still never worked commercially, anywhere, ever. It’s just as bad as the phantom SMRs we mock the nuclear lobby about.
We are already out of time to avert climate change. Now we have to both adapt to climate change AND prevent it getting worse. And on both a global and national scale we are doing … neither of those things.
I can only console you all by pointing out we were totally farked anyway.
this latest setback will only marginally push the clock forward as it only has a few seconds left until the dead of night for our species.
With everything going on around the world, I’m expecting polarisation to accelerate even more rapidly over the next 2 decades.
From a climate perspective, it seems that violence in defense of beliefs (both ways) is inevitable.
Agree, enjoy the next few years - we are at peak humanity.
Eat nice cheese, drink nice wine, it’s all downhill from 2030.
Peak humanity seems pretty ■■■■ right now 
Humanity as a whole peaked in high school. We’re now at the point where we’re collectively fat and divorced and our kids hate us and we’re just starting to look in the face of a long dragging future of species-wide senility, indignity, and bedsores, lying on a crappy urine-soacked mattress in an understaffed low-budget nursing home, sharing a room with a dementia-ridden heavy smoker who shouts racist abuse at the nurses and masturbates constantly.
Compare it to pretty much any other period in human history and things are amazing IMO
I felt more optimistic about the world in the 90s
I’ll admit to an appreciation of gallows humour, this made me laugh. It’s that optimistic nihilism again, loaded with very good suggestion, and death.
And this made me laugh loudly