{"id":1395,"date":"2020-01-21T05:41:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T18:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2020-01-21T05:41:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T18:41:45","slug":"trinket-people-will-rescue-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"Trinket People will Rescue Australia. Tim Blair"},"content":{"rendered":"
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https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/blogs\/tim-blair\/trinket-people-will-rescue-australia\/news-story\/7d5994550732df7e3a07eb197fc8df65<\/a><\/p>\n

In times of great physical and spiritual crisis, we typically turn to figures of significant moral standing we hope may somehow be able to guide us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Few such figures have been apparent, sadly, since the beginning of Australia\u2019s continuing bushfire disaster. Few, that is, aside from thousands of heroic volunteer fire fighters who lead by example rather than word.<\/p>\n

To them, I offer the deepest gratitude and appreciation. Those men and women are our greatest Australians, risking and in too many tragic cases losing their lives as they seek to protect others.<\/p>\n

But there remains a vacuum in guidance beyond the fires. There remains the absence of a figurehead capable of putting in words the nation\u2019s grief and suffering, and of charting our course to recovery.<\/p>\n

Now, however, a powerful voice of ethical and righteous reason is finally heard. It came from that celebrated purveyor of principle and conscience known as Tiffany & Co<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cDear Prime Minister Morrison,\u201d the New York-based $4.4 billion per year diamond and trinket retailer announced in a full-page advertisement published last week by the Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the brave people of Australia continue to battle bushfires that are devastating communities and wildlife, now is the time for bold and decisive climate action.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis disaster of climate change is too real, and the threat to our planet and our children is too great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh, thank you, Tiffany & Co. Thank you for saving Australia and the planet by deploying all the kilotonnes of ecological wisdom and concern generated at your Fifth Avenue headquarters in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Tiffany & Co\u2019s thousands of customers throughout fire-struck areas of regional Australia are no doubt hugely impressed by the company\u2019s climate policy directive. Why, I\u2019ve heard that grateful firefighters out Cobargo way are even wearing $17,000 Tiffany diamond dragonfly brooches in tribute as they wade into the flames.<\/p>\n

In further thanks, perhaps we could order that all NSW fire engines be repainted in Tiffany\u2019s trademark aquamarine. After all, when the going gets tough, the tough turn to Tiffany.<\/p>\n

If it weren\u2019t for opportunistic wealthy wokens carrying on during these fires, there\u2019s a real danger that sensible discussion leading to achievable solutions might occur. Instead we\u2019re stuck with posh mineral retailers and the likes of mining inheritance millionaire Simon Holmes a Court<\/a> telling us what to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur only chance to maintain our standard of living, and our economy, is if all countries rapidly decarbonise,\u201d climate evangelist Holmes a Court claimed last week.<\/p>\n

Well, that takes diamonds out of the picture then. And who knew that paying gigantic renewables-subsidising power bills is making us richer, while nearly $100 billion in coal exports are sending us broke?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how things work with Holmes a Court\u2019s creative woke math, which also finds that Australia\u2019s puny 1.3 per cent of global human-caused carbon dioxide emissions is in fact a really huge amount.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf all countries with emissions under a \u2018measly\u2019 two per cent were lumped together we\u2019d together be responsible for almost as much annual emissions as China and India put together,\u201d Holmes a Court, whose calculator has an \u201cif\u201d button, wrote in the Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow about if we divide China into 56 countries of 25 million people, each with emissions half of Australia\u2019s \u2013 would that let them off the hook?\u201d<\/p>\n

If, if, if. \u201cAustralia has the highest emissions per capita of all major nations,\u201d Holmes a Court continued, using an argument now abandoned even by some leftists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe atmosphere doesn\u2019t react on a per capita basis,\u201d Holmes a Court\u2019s fellow Guardian<\/em> climate shrieker Greg Jericho<\/a> wrote in 2018. \u201cIt reacts to the total level of CO2 emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not in Simon\u2019s world it doesn\u2019t. \u201cThe \u2018too small to matter\u2019 argument is logically absurd,\u201d Holmes a Court asserts. So let\u2019s consider his own carbon contributions.<\/p>\n

In the same piece denouncing the relative size of individual Australians\u2019 carbon output, Holmes a Court lists a few places he\u2019s lately visited. Presumably he didn\u2019t travel aboard Greta Thunberg\u2019s zero-carbon miracle yacht.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn November I visited a cement factory in Belgium that is trialling a low-cost technology,\u201d Holmes a Court revealed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Essen, in Germany\u2019s Ruhr Valley, I saw a technology that allows power-hungry aluminium smelters to operate well \u2026 In nearby Duisburg, I visited ThyssenKrupp, a major German industrial company with a commitment to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sounds like a fine holiday. Pity the rest of us will soon be decarbonised and unable to enjoy similar journeys, even if we\u2019re stuffed into the economy seats.<\/p>\n

Cocaine \u2013 according to the late comedian Robin Williams, who was deeply informed on the subject \u2013 was God\u2019s way of telling you you are making too much money. This is no longer the case.<\/p>\n

Now, the failsafe indicator of reckless wealth is a conspicuous, unrealistic and scolding devotion to climate issues. We\u2019re being lectured on economic and ecological justice by jewellery-rattling millionaire Tesla owners.<\/p>\n

The richer they get, the greener and more judgmental they become<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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