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Aussies in January 2020: Our country is on fire! Stop climate change! Look what we're doing! Aussies in September 2020: 7h Flight to nowhere sells out in 10min

• underwater 6y ago
  Australians have always pushed back on fighting climate change. A huge part of our economy is based around mining and exporting coal and gas. We really don't have significant manafacturing or knowledge based industries to fall back on. So while there is less overt denialism around climate change, there is a still a lot of cognitive dissonance. People make excuses about having to do more than our "fair share" or say that mining is necessary for the jobs.
  • DarthGhandi 6y ago
    > We really don't have significant manafacturing We once did, but Dutch disease set in like many predicted at the start of the commodities boom. It's popular to blame wages but manufacturing powerhouses like Germany have equivalent wages and compete easily. People subtlety associate fossil fuels with a healthy economy and govts are unwilling to try change popular perceptions as it's contentious enough to have taken down a few PM's. Meanwhile Norway is now powered by 100% renewables and still shipping huge amounts of oil elsewhere. Australians are the 2nd biggest greenhouse emitters per capita after Qatar. It's shameful.