yes, this is the critical issue now. M. either isolated himself by watching for shooting stars or the rest tended strongly to avoid the lost soul looking for signs of rain ;-)
the trade sanctions will soon come - just when the best EVs are starting to come out of Europe.
Boris Johnson's speech seemed pretty cut up and was clearly identifying Aus along with Russia, china and India as basically enemies of the coalition.
Pacific leaders have condemned Australia’s Paris climate target as “one of the weakest”, urging Canberra to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and abandon its Kyoto carryover credits.
Fourteen Pacific leaders, including former presidents and prime ministers, foreign ministers, archbishops and other church leaders, have penned an open leader to the prime minister, Scott Morrison, “as Pacific Islander leaders whose homelands and cultures face certain devastation from climate change”.
“Pacific island nations have long been leaders in driving global progress to combat climate change,” the letter says. “However, Australia’s current Paris Agreement emission reduction target remains one of the weakest among wealthy nations.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/01/pacific-leaders-condemn-australias-weak-climate-target-in-open-letter-to-scott-morrisonthere's going to be hell to pay when he next fronts the Pacific warriors.
