Post by NFA on Dec 30, 2023 8:09:30 GMT 8
Great Leap backwards
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Our climate change minister’s economic predictions resemble an environmental Maoist Great Leap Forward – and like most Great Leap Forwards, it’s cataclysmic for the people it supposedly was designed to help.
Out in the countryside, Labor’s great unwashed are losing their minds as foreign companies prepare to build wind factories on dolphin and whale habitats.
You won’t find our federal climate change minister near the natural environment in the Hunter or Illawarra or any transmission line corridor, rally or protest. You won’t find him explaining his vision to those harmed by it.
You will find Chris Bowen with unctuous enthusiasm touring Sydney shopping centre rooftops admiring solar panels.
Meanwhile, his intimate club of state climate commissars spruik renewables as the cheapest form of energy, oblivious to record numbers being disconnected despite the subsidies.
Five days before Christmas, Mr Bowen’s Queensland protege, Renewable Energy Minister Mick de Brenni, boasted on X: “Queensland has a bold new emissions target. 75 per cent by 2035.”
But his bill, introduced just three months prior, legislates that: “By 2035, 80 per cent of the electricity generated in Queensland is generated from renewable energy sources.”
What’s 5 per cent between friends and the Australian economy? We should refer him to Page 12 of his Energy Renewable Transformation and Jobs Bill, which he allegedly drafted himself, definitely spoke on, and introduced to parliament on October 24.
It’s funny how they have a dogmatic attachment to their climate predictions but fail in the facts of their legislation. Meanwhile, the NSW climate change minister’s latest specious doctrine, which she calls “an integral part of our Net Zero Plan”, reads like a dystopian fiction, pinning NSW’s future exports on cell-based meat and “cheese” made from growths. The authors of the Great Leap Forwards only see the consequences through the window.
It’s the peasants who will suffer.
The NSW Decarbonisation Innovation 2023 Study claims Petrie dish groceries “will not only deliver decarbonisation benefits but also have increased resilience against extreme weather and improved nutritional content”.
Isn’t this the same state that a few weeks ago was telling us to turn off our washing machines because the grid couldn’t cope? How is making meat in a factory, relying entirely on man-made power, going to have “resilience against extreme weather”? Farms are solar-powered. Grass doesn’t grow without sunlight and cattle don’t grow without grass.
It quotes a 2021 CSIRO report, which “forecasts synthetic biology has the potential to bring $27bn per year and 44,000 jobs in Australia under a high growth, high market share scenario.”
All this does is discredit the CSIRO to forecast that an industry of Petrie dish food will be worth nearly double our nation’s gold exports and employ roughly the same number of people as we have pharmacists.
And if you were concerned about the centralisation of the retail market with Coles and Woolworths, imagine how you would feel about the centralisation of the food producing market.
If people want to eat it, they can go for it, but why is Penny Sharpe backing in a plan demonising natural farming while propping up lab-made “meat” as an export industry with taxpayer’s funds?
“Food and agriculture would have the highest market share, with up to 70 per cent for alternatives to animal proteins, agricultural chemicals, engineered crops and biological treatments,” it says.
This study of “refreshed opportunities with a systematic approach for the NSW clean economy” claims that: “NSW’s greatest opportunity likely rests with the export of molecules via green hydrogen and derivatives …
The substantial wind resources off the Hunter and the Illawarra coast could provide the necessary feedstock of a molecule export industry”.
The people of the Hunter and Illawarra thought the government was consulting with them about the proposed offshore wind.
This whole process is now sounding very Pyongyang-like.
And what was the methodology underpinning this vital study of our future economies by the NSW chief scientist? Basically, let’s ask our mates.
This included NSW and federal government departments and agencies doling out renewable subsidies, taxpayer-funded boards guiding the handouts, including the NSW Net Zero Emissions and Clean Economy Board, the NSW Renewable Energy Sector Board, and a swag of universities.
It’s not a very scientific method.
Where is the control for their bias? Especially when the stakeholders they engaged included the following: Business Finland, US Grains Council, Qantas, ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology “Cellular Agriculture”, the largest cultivated meat factory in Sydney, a start-up that takes microbes and encodes them with dairy protein DNA, World Wide Fund for Nature, and an achingly long list of renewable toadie consultant hangers-on.
The same document singles out China and India for committing to “significant international initiatives on decarbonisation of energy”, with China setting a target of 33 per cent renewables, and India proposing 500GW of “non-fossil fuel” by 2030.
I know it’s close to New Year’s Eve, but what pills are they on? China has 1142 coal-fired power stations and, despite its government’s pledges, is building a lot more of them, with 243GW on the way. India has 282 coalfired power stations, with 65.3GW under development.
Yet our government scientists and climate change ministers are telling us we will eat food concocted in a laboratory, and it will be healthier for us and the planet than the systems created by nature. And we will destroy the breathtaking sunrises off Nelson Bay to power it.
We will destroy the industries that we do export, coal and agriculture, to build new ones, molecules and fake food, which won’t make a difference to the temperature of the globe, but will make us broke.
We can live as a little enclave of white-collar idealism where we don’t believe in coal or gas or farming, but we better believe in poverty because it is coming our way.
Australia’s climate change ministers have to realise the cards the country holds.
We didn’t get Microsoft, Apple, Siemens or Krupps. We have not been blessed with Norway’s oil or cursed – as far as the individual is concerned – with China’s low wages.
We have been slapped on the arse with a rainbow of good luck but now we want to grab it and snap it in two and throw it back in the face of Providence, thinking we will somehow survive as a nation of white-collar jobs selling molecules and synthetic cheese.
Ah, the great leap forward.
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Our climate change minister’s economic predictions resemble an environmental Maoist Great Leap Forward – and like most Great Leap Forwards, it’s cataclysmic for the people it supposedly was designed to help.
Out in the countryside, Labor’s great unwashed are losing their minds as foreign companies prepare to build wind factories on dolphin and whale habitats.
You won’t find our federal climate change minister near the natural environment in the Hunter or Illawarra or any transmission line corridor, rally or protest. You won’t find him explaining his vision to those harmed by it.
You will find Chris Bowen with unctuous enthusiasm touring Sydney shopping centre rooftops admiring solar panels.
Meanwhile, his intimate club of state climate commissars spruik renewables as the cheapest form of energy, oblivious to record numbers being disconnected despite the subsidies.
Five days before Christmas, Mr Bowen’s Queensland protege, Renewable Energy Minister Mick de Brenni, boasted on X: “Queensland has a bold new emissions target. 75 per cent by 2035.”
But his bill, introduced just three months prior, legislates that: “By 2035, 80 per cent of the electricity generated in Queensland is generated from renewable energy sources.”
What’s 5 per cent between friends and the Australian economy? We should refer him to Page 12 of his Energy Renewable Transformation and Jobs Bill, which he allegedly drafted himself, definitely spoke on, and introduced to parliament on October 24.
It’s funny how they have a dogmatic attachment to their climate predictions but fail in the facts of their legislation. Meanwhile, the NSW climate change minister’s latest specious doctrine, which she calls “an integral part of our Net Zero Plan”, reads like a dystopian fiction, pinning NSW’s future exports on cell-based meat and “cheese” made from growths. The authors of the Great Leap Forwards only see the consequences through the window.
It’s the peasants who will suffer.
The NSW Decarbonisation Innovation 2023 Study claims Petrie dish groceries “will not only deliver decarbonisation benefits but also have increased resilience against extreme weather and improved nutritional content”.
Isn’t this the same state that a few weeks ago was telling us to turn off our washing machines because the grid couldn’t cope? How is making meat in a factory, relying entirely on man-made power, going to have “resilience against extreme weather”? Farms are solar-powered. Grass doesn’t grow without sunlight and cattle don’t grow without grass.
It quotes a 2021 CSIRO report, which “forecasts synthetic biology has the potential to bring $27bn per year and 44,000 jobs in Australia under a high growth, high market share scenario.”
All this does is discredit the CSIRO to forecast that an industry of Petrie dish food will be worth nearly double our nation’s gold exports and employ roughly the same number of people as we have pharmacists.
And if you were concerned about the centralisation of the retail market with Coles and Woolworths, imagine how you would feel about the centralisation of the food producing market.
If people want to eat it, they can go for it, but why is Penny Sharpe backing in a plan demonising natural farming while propping up lab-made “meat” as an export industry with taxpayer’s funds?
“Food and agriculture would have the highest market share, with up to 70 per cent for alternatives to animal proteins, agricultural chemicals, engineered crops and biological treatments,” it says.
This study of “refreshed opportunities with a systematic approach for the NSW clean economy” claims that: “NSW’s greatest opportunity likely rests with the export of molecules via green hydrogen and derivatives …
The substantial wind resources off the Hunter and the Illawarra coast could provide the necessary feedstock of a molecule export industry”.
The people of the Hunter and Illawarra thought the government was consulting with them about the proposed offshore wind.
This whole process is now sounding very Pyongyang-like.
And what was the methodology underpinning this vital study of our future economies by the NSW chief scientist? Basically, let’s ask our mates.
This included NSW and federal government departments and agencies doling out renewable subsidies, taxpayer-funded boards guiding the handouts, including the NSW Net Zero Emissions and Clean Economy Board, the NSW Renewable Energy Sector Board, and a swag of universities.
It’s not a very scientific method.
Where is the control for their bias? Especially when the stakeholders they engaged included the following: Business Finland, US Grains Council, Qantas, ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology “Cellular Agriculture”, the largest cultivated meat factory in Sydney, a start-up that takes microbes and encodes them with dairy protein DNA, World Wide Fund for Nature, and an achingly long list of renewable toadie consultant hangers-on.
The same document singles out China and India for committing to “significant international initiatives on decarbonisation of energy”, with China setting a target of 33 per cent renewables, and India proposing 500GW of “non-fossil fuel” by 2030.
I know it’s close to New Year’s Eve, but what pills are they on? China has 1142 coal-fired power stations and, despite its government’s pledges, is building a lot more of them, with 243GW on the way. India has 282 coalfired power stations, with 65.3GW under development.
Yet our government scientists and climate change ministers are telling us we will eat food concocted in a laboratory, and it will be healthier for us and the planet than the systems created by nature. And we will destroy the breathtaking sunrises off Nelson Bay to power it.
We will destroy the industries that we do export, coal and agriculture, to build new ones, molecules and fake food, which won’t make a difference to the temperature of the globe, but will make us broke.
We can live as a little enclave of white-collar idealism where we don’t believe in coal or gas or farming, but we better believe in poverty because it is coming our way.
Australia’s climate change ministers have to realise the cards the country holds.
We didn’t get Microsoft, Apple, Siemens or Krupps. We have not been blessed with Norway’s oil or cursed – as far as the individual is concerned – with China’s low wages.
We have been slapped on the arse with a rainbow of good luck but now we want to grab it and snap it in two and throw it back in the face of Providence, thinking we will somehow survive as a nation of white-collar jobs selling molecules and synthetic cheese.
Ah, the great leap forward.