Australia in Peril:Zero Emissions is a Baite Hook

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Zero Emissions A Baite Hook

By Viv Forbes —— Bio and Archives--February 7, 2021


“Zero emissions” requires no diesel, petrol or gas-fuelled cars, trucks, tractors or dozers and no burning of coal or gas for electricity generation. But without nuclear power or a massive increase in hydro-electricity, green energy will not support metal refining or manufacturing, and domestic electricity usage will be rationed. “Zero emissions” will also force closure of most cement plants, mechanised farms and feed lots and will demand nuclear or wind-powered submarines, destroyers and bulk carriers.

In the Zero Emissions world there can be no diesel buses, oil-powered cruise liners or jet aircraft (except fleets of climate comrades attending endless UNIPCC conferences). Moreover, 7.8 billion humans continuously emit a lot of carbon dioxide – maybe they plan to make the Covid masks air tight?

Zero Emissions would decimate mining, farming, forestry, fishing and tourism. As exports fall, imports must also fall. Without diesel fuel and lubricants there will be little surplus meat, milk, vegetables, cereals, sea food or timber for the cities, for export, or for immigrants or refugees. Rabbits, kangaroos, possums, koalas, Murray cod and wild pigs will become staple foods and wood/charcoal burners generating “green” gas will again fuel antique cars and utes. Wood-burning steam-powered traction engines may live again.

But we have the “Net Zero” loophole, which is green bait on a barbed hook.

The “Net Zero” baited hook offers five escape routes:

Buy dodgy carbon credits from dubious foreigners.
Cover our grasslands and open forests with carbon-absorbing bushfire-prone eucalypt weeds.
Build costly energy-hungry carbon-capture schemes.
Chase the hydrogen mirage.
Log and replant old-growth forests. (New trees will grow and extract CO2 faster than old mature trees.)
Net zero has one bright prospect – freeloading cities like Canberra must shed population and convert their manicured parklands to lettuce farms, lucerne paddocks, cow bails and poultry runs.


https://canadafreepress.com/article/zero-emissions-a-baite-hook

Viv Forbes -- Bio and Archives
Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, has spent his life working in exploration, mining, farming, infrastructure, financial analysis and political commentary. He has worked for government departments, private companies and now works as a private contractor and farmer.

Viv has also been a guest writer for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Queensland and mining newspapers. He was awarded the “Australian Adam Smith Award for Services to the Free Society” in 1988, and has written widely on political, technical and economic subjects

New Zealand set a framework for its net zero emissions target but has excluded agriculture.   They have exempted farming.  Australia will probably do the same if pressed.

Conservatives would 'quarantine' agriculture and mining from the targets.  They will never hurt rural Australia nor will they cut off the lifeblood mining industry.

Like all western countries though they will probably be doomed to commitments of failure when the next leftist government takes control, which will happen eventually.

Red Lily wrote:New Zealand set a framework for its net zero emissions target but has excluded agriculture.   They have exempted farming.  Australia will probably do the same if pressed.

Conservatives would 'quarantine' agriculture and mining from the targets.  They will never hurt rural Australia nor will they cut off the lifeblood mining industry.

Like all western countries though they will probably be doomed to commitments of failure when the next leftist government takes control, which will happen eventually.

It will still affect farming operations as the price of fuel will be sky high if the government doesn't enact some fuel price exemptions .
When i see proof that China and India comply and reduce emissions , I'll consider it.

I read today where the city of Paris failed to meet their emissions quota.

So much for The Accords.

Red Lily wrote:New Zealand set a framework for its net zero emissions target but has excluded agriculture.   They have exempted farming.  Australia will probably do the same if pressed.

Conservatives would 'quarantine' agriculture and mining from the targets.  They will never hurt rural Australia nor will they cut off the lifeblood mining industry.

Like all western countries though they will probably be doomed to commitments of failure when the next leftist government takes control, which will happen eventually.

It will still affect farming operations as the price of fuel will be sky high if the government doesn't enact some fuel price exemptions .
When i see proof that China and India comply and reduce emissions , I'll consider it.

I read today where the city of Paris failed to meet their emissions quota.

So much for The Accords.

The price of fuel in Oz is already sky high. The people would revolt.

Red Lily wrote:The price of fuel in Oz is already sky high.   The people would revolt.

Good!

They're gonna have to exempt Film makers too. To get to those remote places that they get access to and new zealanders DON"T takes helicopters, jeeps and who knows what else. Otherwise it's gonna kill their national economy. Or it'll kill it for someone...cause someone is getting paid for this privilege.

Calypso Jones wrote:They're gonna have to exempt Film makers too.   To get to those remote places that they get access to and new zealanders DON"T takes helicopters, jeeps and who knows what else.    Otherwise it's gonna kill their national economy.   Or it'll kill it for someone...cause someone is getting paid for this privilege.

Someone will always have the money to buy carbon credits.

Red Lily wrote:New Zealand set a framework for its net zero emissions target but has excluded agriculture.   They have exempted farming.  Australia will probably do the same if pressed.

Conservatives would 'quarantine' agriculture and mining from the targets.  They will never hurt rural Australia nor will they cut off the lifeblood mining industry.

Like all western countries though they will probably be doomed to commitments of failure when the next leftist government takes control, which will happen eventually.

""New Zealand set a framework for its net zero emissions target but has excluded agriculture. They have exempted farming.""

To the best of my knowledge that is not set in stone, This labour gov are so fucken red if they were a steak you would throw them back on grill,,

It's a tax for control scam. We are doomed if we don't get out of it.