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Australia is a globally influential country with high per capita wealth and emissions. Australia has the capacity to show leadership to other similarly-sized co
by sjy 7y ago
Australia is a globally influential country with high per capita wealth and emissions. Australia has the capacity to show leadership to other similarly-sized countries, by incrementally addressing (potentially at economic cost to itself, a wealthy country) a global challenge for which everyone is responsible, regardless of the size of the country they live in.
- iliketosleep 7y agoPerhaps if Australia pulled it off successfully without too much economic damage, this could be true. But from what I've heard, the states that adopted green policies suffered power shortages and soaring energy prices. Hopefully in the future this will change.
- spacehunt 7y agoIf you are talking about the blackout event in South Australia back in 2016, it was due to misconfigured wind farms: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-28/wind-farm-settings-to-blame-for-sa-blackout-aemo-says/8389920 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-28/wind-farm-settings-to... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Australian_blackout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Australian_blackout Soaring energy prices are because of privatisation, not because of green policies.