The real concern of environmental activists like Greta Thunberg is not climate change, but to “upend society” and “move away from capitalism,” Australia’s Resources Minister Matt Canavan said Tuesday.
He spoke after the Swedish teenage climate worrier unsuccessfully tried to force the German telecommunications group, Siemens, to drop its role as a contractor for the giant Adani coal mine now being planned for Australia’s north.
Canavan intervened and secured the company to stay and complete railway signaling at the site, but not before he took a passing swipe at the intervention of Thunberg.
Canavan told Sky News in Australia “common sense has once again prevailed,” and said the “likes of Greta Thunberg” claim to be concerned with emissions reduction remains a fallacy.
“Their policy prescriptions aren’t actually about reducing carbon emissions, it’s about the radical massive changes to our economy and society”, he said.
The Adani mine, which received final environmental approval in June, is expected to produce at least 10 million t of thermal coal every year.
Nationally, the Australian coal mining industry employs 50, 400 people, when thermal and coking operations were combined, Australian Bureau of Statistics labor force data for November showed, with exports going mainly to China, India, Korea, Japan, and Chile.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who once famously brandished a lump of coal in parliament, crying, “This is coal – don’t be afraid!” has also vowed climate protesters like Greta Thunberg would not be dictating the country’s energy or trade policy.
As Breitbart News reported last month he backed Adani and coal production.
“We won’t embrace reckless targets and abandon our traditional industries that would risk Australian jobs while having no meaningful impact on the global climate,” he said in an opinion piece for the Daily Telegraph.
“In short, we will continue to act responsibly on climate change, avoiding extreme responses and get the balance right.”
Coal exports were worth an estimated AUS$67 billion (US$45.9 billion) to the nation’s economy in the 2018 – 2019 financial year, overtaking iron ore as Australia’s most valuable export.
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We do need lots of Common Sense these days when a Brainwashed 16 year old s from Sweden is dictating to the world how it should be run Go Home Greta and take your Father back there to we don’t follow the demands of High School drop-outs who get featured in a leftists liberal rag like TIME magazine
The goal of up ending society has long been the driver of the climate change movement. I remember over ten years ago reading an article written by a leftist that concluded, “Global warming can’t be solved within the capitalist system.”
If you read the following article “Not even Climate Change will kill off Capitalism” which appeared in the Guardian (6th March 2014) under the “Environment” it explores why Global Warming / Climate Change is failing to achieve the agenda of the world’s communists / socialists. You will note that it is purely a political diatribe – with no mention of the environment and only of using the environmental movement to further the aims of the political far left.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/06/not-even-climate-change-will-kill-off-capitalism
How astounding that the alarmists want to destroy
the way of life nearly all of western culture has become
accustomed to.
How surprising that they want to setup a one world
totalitarian dictatorship with a benevolent ” elite ”
ruling the ignorant, incompetent plebeians.
The alarmists defenders would say that they only
want to return mankind to the Garden of Eden.
I believe that to be true for the Garden of Eden
was a SLAVE COLONY .
The Garden of Eden,Eve,The Snake and the Forbiden Fruit that’s how it all started these eco-Freaks want to send all of civilization back to a primative way including Human Sacrifice just like the Aztecs did
Greta,the Climate Activists and the lawmakers can learn a little lesson from Superman and the Molemen YOU LIVE IN YOUR WORLD WE’LL LIVE IN OURS if they were to pop up form under the ground they would give a good lesson to these busybodies
Can we just dispense with the Greta thing ? Greta’s Daddy and handlers are
the eco activists hiding behind a teenager . Cowards .