Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Has Aussie PM Scott Morrison just sold out Australia’s Economy to Big Green? Until now Scott Morrison has done a good job, resisting globalist calls to shut down our coal industry. But fulsome praise from Nancy Pelosi is not a good omen for things to come.
Nancy Pelosi says Australia is ‘leading the way’ on climate
By Matthew Knott
September 24, 2021 — 3.08amWashington: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has hailed Australia as a global leader on climate change while echoing Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s rhetoric about the importance of countries “meeting and beating” their climate targets.
A day after meeting with Morrison at the US Capitol, the Democrat, widely described as the most powerful woman in US political history, singled out Australia for praise while discussing climate change at a briefing with congressional reporters.
“The Prime Minister of Australia, Morrison, he was saying, ‘We’re not only addressing the Paris Accords – our slogan is we meet it and we beat it’,” Pelosi said.
“So they’re leading the way and that’s what we all have to do …”
Pelosi’s praise defies any expectations that Morrison would face public criticism from Democrats during his trip to the United States for failing to set sufficiently ambitious climate targets.
At the previous day’s meeting, Pelosi mentioned climate change and told Morrison “thank you for your leadership in that regard”.
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Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/nancy-pelosi-says-australia-is-leading-the-way-on-climate-20210924-p58ude.html
It could be part of a game, to try to pressure Aussie PM Scott Morrison into agreeing to something terrible. Or maybe he told Nancy during his meeting that Australia would announce something dramatic, like a ban on future coal projects, or a binding net zero by 2050 commitment.
There is no doubt Scott Morrison is under enormous pressure to act. Members of his own cabinet, like Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, are totally onboard the green bandwagon. Every other week Josh writes an article urging Australia to commit to squandering of billions of dollars of taxpayer’s money on useless renewable “opportunities”, which private industry refuses to touch without government funding.
Other members of the cabinet, like Resources Minister Keith Pitt, seem to be opposed to government funding for renewables – but will the courageous opposition of a handful of senior politicians be enough to prevent our government from destroying our own coal industry?
I fear things could be about to get a lot worse for the Australian Economy.
It seems that our PM is a masterful salesman as well as being from Marketing. He now has the USA publicly agreeing that Australia has met all of our Kyoto and Paris commitments.
He has stated for some time that it is far better to set achievable commitments and meet them than it is to set overly ambitious aspirational targets and fall well short.
I believe the term is “under-promise and over-deliver”. The client may be initially disappointed about the feature set or delivery date, but is immensely gratified to receive the agreed outcome.
There are variations on the theme, such as “managing customer expectations” and “containing scope”, which successful project managers will be familiar with.
You Mean Nancy has been on the gin again