The left like to blatherskite about their “compassion” for the poor, the underprivileged and the working classes. The gap between their rhetoric and reality is directly proportional to how far they have their heads jammed up their own digestive tracts.
Because the harsh truth is that, time and again, the left pursue policies that actively harm the poor and the working class.
Nowhere more so than with “climate change”.
Climate change is the bourgeois issue, par excellence. From the smug wall of private school blazers at “climate strikes”, to the Oxbridge types glueing themselves to roads and trains, stopping working-class people from getting to their jobs, the most notable thing about climate change activists is how rich they are.
The wealthier they are, and the less they did to earn it, the worse for the working-class they are.
Possibly the most destructive policy of the climate-obsessed elite right now is “renewable energy”. People who’ve never actually made anything in their lives apart from money, whether investment bankers or politicians, are pouring their money into policies which do nothing but cripple grids and drive millions of people into “energy poverty”.
On the other hand, people who build things know that we need cheap, reliable fossil fuels to keep a modern society functioning — even if they can’t bring themselves to say so openly.
Australia’s largest single electricity consumer says it needs a 24/7 reliable power generation guarantee to keep running its aluminium smelter amid concerns that early closures of coal-fired power stations could exacerbate the impact of renewable energy droughts.
The most destructive idiot in Australia when it comes to energy security is tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes. This well-heeled leaner is more than happy to fritter his paper billions and play at saving the planet — because he will never have to choose between keeping warm or starving. He’ll certain never have to worry about keeping a factory humming.
Tomago Aluminium chief executive Matt Howell is seeking more details from Origin and AGL about their plans to plug electricity gaps triggered by impending closures of the Eraring and Liddell coal plants.
Naturally, Howell mouths the requisite platitudes about ““transitioning our electricity needs towards a portfolio of firmed renewables” — but the problem is that “firmed renewables” is an oxymoron. As he tacitly admits.
“As Australia’s largest electricity consumer, it is imperative that adequate generation and storage is available continuously and particularly during extended renewable droughts (low or no wind at night).”
Tomago, based in the election battleground of the NSW Hunter region, is one of Australasia’s biggest aluminium smelters and has operated 24 hours a day since 1983. The Australian last year revealed Tomago was hit with 40 hours of interruptions in June after “price volatility” linked with outages at two power plants and wind droughts.
The Australian
And that’s with at least some coal-fired stations still running. Imagine how much worse it will be if Wokey McMoneybags gets to live out his green fantasies?
Spare us the climate follies of essentially useless rich kids.