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Our $70 billion dollar sign Prime Minister

Michael Rynn
6 min readJan 13, 2020

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We are in Australia, getting down the gritty nub of what blocks climate change policy progress in this nation. Yes, you already knew, it is big money mining (again). Because the rich can never have enough.
From the online news limited article — Scott Morrison opens the door to an ‘evolution’ of his government’s climate change policy

Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, is under climate policy pressure, with ongoing expanded bush-fire season disaster. He would be better off by calming down, really listening, becoming better informed, and please stop forcing out manic and idiotic sound bytes in a panic.

His current media nibbles policy sales spiel sounds very defensive and rattled. Only the “good” or meaningless statistics are quoted — “Emissions today are 50 million tonnes less on average each year under our government than under the previous government” . What an over-under-qualified mind twister!

Australian total emissions have been steadily increasing over last four and a half years.

Australian emissions declined until 2013, but increased again over last 4 years

Australian Greenhouse growth trend. Previous governments to the left, current government to the right

Large increases are now due to increases emissions incurred from Australian LNG export industry, and that is without counting the exported gas emissions…

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Michael Rynn
Michael Rynn

Written by Michael Rynn

Once was educated and worked in Medical Practice, then did software engineering. Now retired. Still doing music, reading and writing, and website tinkering

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