Murdoch's ownership of the media is extremely effective.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/04/the-australian...
[0] https://www.npr.org/2019/09/18/761591604/bolivia-is-fighting...
I would guess a combination of winds and high fuel load means a small fire can become an uncontrollable roaring blaze very quickly. I guess also a lot of fires could be started in areas that are not easily accessible to fire fighters so it might not even be an option to stop them while they are small.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-08-19/australia-co2...
Additionally Australia actively dismantles action amongst other countries. Your comment comes off as knowing the pond in the ocean of the problem. It also exports coal on a gigantic scale, read top of the world so other countries do her polluting.
People can call is climate claim denial all the want, but that is mostly down to them not understanding economics, and the economic realities
The climate issues can not be solved by banning things, taxing things, or regulating things. It can only be solved in the same way every other human problem has been solved. Innovation, we need to innovate our way out of the problem.
Looking to government solutions to the issue will always result in disappointment and no solution
How did we innovate around lead in petrol or pipes? Or the health consequences of smoking? Adulteration of food?
CFCs?
Seems like appropriate use of regulation, punitive taxation and banning has a long history of working well, despite your economic dogma.
The others are more of the same, some of it is misappropriation to how much the government actually impacted things vs normal market pressures, the government has the habit of coming in after society has already starting phasing out a product or practice then "regulating" the last few companies that have not changed yet as the pressure of the market leaders, it is form or protectionism to put competition out of business.
But continue to believe the government work for you, and not Large Multi National corporations. All evidence speaks to the contrary...
It caused inflationary pressures of just under 1%, and cost the average household about $550 per year in additional costs
There were also reports of factory closures due to cost increases, with resulting job losses. One one company reported that they had to pay AUD8 million a year for the carbon tax and was forced to close as a result with all employees losing their jobs
But who needs an economy or jobs, right... the government will provide
- Jevon’s paradox. Much of our heavy use of energy is because of increasing energy efficiency
- population growth. We continue to increase the food supply to increase the already ridiculous population size.
- materialism. In the absence of a culture for many people to fit in, we demand toys, gadgets, international travel, non seasonal food, etc.
- relentless pursuit of economic growth at all costs. The belief that the only solution to the distribution problems in our capitalist economy is to grow.
i.e the "Electric prices have to sky rocket to save the planet" which impacts the poorest families the most and will cause massive human suffering.
So you want suffering today to prevent the possibility of suffering in 100 years completely discounting any possibility of the technological solution
Sorry I can not get behind that, but if you believe in that so much why don't you start with your own life, stop using Computers, cars, electricity, Refrigeration, and every other modern life convenience.
Go to a pure 10,000 years ago life style, no medicine, no power, and only food you can find or grow with your own hands no machines, no modern fabric's.. nothing
