Not one of the posters here has advanced a reason why Australia has to be the leader in this transition to net zero.
Given that greater nations than Australia are applying massively greater human and financial resources to the pursuit of net zero as a normal average Australian I am left to think that what is wrong with Australia taking its time and learning from the mistakes of these countries.
I have in my private life adopted the policy of never buying the first version of any new technology on the basis that the first version as a rule has bugs or problems which become evident when put to test in the real world.
This policy was handed to me originally by my father 50 years ago who told me never to buy the first of a new model of any car ‘let them sort out the problems before you buy’.
No one can credibly suggest that we are always told the truth by manufacturers. We have phones that over heat, batteries that explode, cars that crash into brick walls and planes that doors fall off.
We are told the engineers have stuffed up Snowy Hydro 2.0, we are told we are running out of gas, we are told we do not have nuclear expertise, we are without our own solar panel industry, we have no plan for recycling wind turbines and the list goes on.
I hate pollution with a passion and I am all in favour of net zero but having had a friend who survived on home dialysis for years, clients who were amputees and needed to avoid over hearing at their stump site to prevent ulcers and having read many stories about elderly people becoming unwell because they could not keep warm in winter or cool in summer the frantic rush by our politicians seems incredibly irresponsible.
Do it once and do it right. Pick the eyes out of the best solutions around the World. Don’t go with the first model or the first option. Don’t be the country others experiment on. We are not global Guinea pigs.
Getting it right when you are prepared to copy the best examples is easy it just is not sexy or original. The current crop of politicians are all about ego, legacy and ideology.
