Essay by Eric Worrall
You couldn’t ask for a better visual representation of what is wrong with our “let them eat cake” elites than the graph above.
One issue matters more to top economists than any other this election: climate change
Published: April 10, 2022 10.30am AEST
Peter Martin
Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National UniversityOffered a menu of issues to choose from as the most important in the May 21 election, Australia’s top economists have overwhelmingly zeroed in on one.
Three quarters of the 50 top economists surveyed by The Conversation and the Economic Society of Australia have nominated “climate and the environment” as the most important issue for the incoming government and the most important in the election.
The 74% who nominated climate and the environment is more than twice the proportion that nominated the four substantial runners up: housing availability and affordability, health, tax reform, and education.
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None of the 50 surveyed nominated “lower taxes” as important for the election or the incoming government, and only 8% nominated support for business.
The economists chosen for the survey are recognised as leaders in fields including economic modelling and public policy. Among them are former IMF, Treasury and OECD officials, and a former member of the Reserve Bank board.
Many noted that their priorities were at odds with those of both major parties.
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Read more: https://theconversation.com/one-issue-matters-more-to-top-economists-than-any-other-this-election-climate-change-180948
Australia is facing a federal election on May 21st. The main contenders are deep green high tax Labor, and the incumbent, slightly less deep green high tax Coalition. Labor are currently in the lead.
None of the economists who contributed to this remarkable downgrade of the concerns of ordinary people have to worry about where their next meal is coming from, or whether they will make this week’s rent payment.
The only thing which might shake them out of their complacency is the one thing none of them voted for, a substantial tax cut – a threat to their government underwritten personal financial security.
But with both major Aussie parties committed to blindly throwing money at universities, and both major parties committed to maintaining a large, wasteful state which pours vast sums of our money into useless white elephants like the Snowy 2 pumped hydro project, the income of Australia’s academic elites is secure for now, regardless of how much ordinary people suffer in the coming energy price driven downturn.
Whatever happened to the results of the online UN poll which found that globally, the climate came 16th of 16 life affecting criteria like health, education, food cost etc. In at 15th was Internet access……..
It would be interesting to ask what personal sacrifice each is making to stop ClimateChange. Cold showers? No internet? Walk to work? 10% salary donation to tree planting? Lots of ways they could show they really believe.
Climate change has been clearly observed on Neptune:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220411101321.htm
So policy will have to be extended to reducing temperature change on Neptune also to 1.5 degrees C.
Mr. Salmon: That’s crazy talk, here on Neptune it’s worse than we thought and the time for change is now.
Yes well we all know about the leftist front ‘the conversation’. As well those surveyed seemed to be mostly from government organisations, more lefties. The number one concern of economists in the real world is inflation, basic food and energy availability, and tax cuts. These lefties will always make a point that somehow their imaginary fan base doesn’t want tax cuts. It’s because tax cuts reduce the possible size of government and tax cuts give ordinary people freedom of choice on how they spend THEIR money that THEY have earned. The left always know how better to spend your money than you do, and they are not going to spend it on reliable power generation. Electricity scarcity and electricity rationing coming soon.
As an economist and a climate change denier i am surprised. I don’t think many of my economist friends would agree with the academics surveyed. I do a lot of work with economic models – like climate models they involve time series of multi-correlated variables. They have their uses but they need to be used with extreme caution. I work with engineers, and I would say they are more likely to believe in global warming.
Well said David, obviously you work in the real world where your decisions matter and if you get it wrong, you get demoted. These academic economists know they have to toe the CAGW climate party line or they will be censored or cancelled by the green majority in the public service and universities.
However, the tide is slowly turning away from the catastrophists in the UN and EU as they have no idea how to sensibly achieve their global goals without completely wrecking Western economies and their populations aspirational life styles. Given that industrial emissions have been scientifically proven NOT to cause any kind of measurable climate change and the IPCC GCM’s are unrealistic and cannot be used in any predictive capacity, the whole CAGW scare campaign is nearly over.
We have experienced cooler weather over the last 6 years since the 2016 El Nino temperature peak, so in effect we are back down to the 2000-2015 temperature pause levels that could allow us scientists to dismiss the immediate threat of any unlikely runaway global warming over the next decade or two. Therefore we have plenty of time to look at possible mitigation measures if warming resumes or indeed cooling continues as predicted by the Russians and Chinese. Chill out people this episode of global politically inspired madness is nearly over.
So these so called “economists”, want to send the country broke, based on an unproven theory?
It would be rather interesting to contrast the general public’s responses to that same list. I suspect it would show just how out of touch these “economists” really are.
And that para tells us all we need to know. Whether it’s their new supercar or yacht, climatge change is where the bribery is at.
“the 50 top economists surveyed by The Conversation and the Economic Society of Australia have nominated “climate and the environment” as the most important issue” !!
What sort of idiots make up this moribund profession of economists?
They are completely mad. They probably won’t stop even when every city is in flames.