Australia's State-Sponsored Greenwash 

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Thank you guys, for fighting the good fight.

I came across your channel only one week ago, and I have already learned so much. I am so grateful to The Australia Institute for being a voice of reason and giving us hope for our children's future.

Excellent work. Thank you.

Thank you. Its disheartening to see how empty that room was, but the more you keep the pressure on, the more we can get the traction we need on the core crisis of our times

"Talking heads" is a good start and fine 'n sweet, UNLESS talking is ALL that is being done. Meanwhile, over in SW Western Australia, where Woodside has its office, whole forests of trees are going brown from heat stress and dying by hectare visible easily by satellite. And no they are NOT deciduous trees. Autumn may not arrive with Summer extending to July!

This is exactly what local governments are doing. My local govt would rather spend $500,000 on carbon offsets than actually do the hard work of decarbonising. Their residents would be better off if they offered a subsidy to get off gas and electrify houses than waste the money on offsets.

I am going back to living the peasant life, grow everything myself naturally, no chemicals, no technology and no bulldust.

Thank you 👏🙏 This needs to be on the table (with engagement and entanglement with the government, this also points to the lobbying by the fossil fuel industry which needs to be prevented) For example the SA government is supporting Santos in their CCS projects and their green hydrogen mix projects, which are both long term greenwashing.

Listening to this brings the thought of the authority, government both state and federal, selling indulgences to those who could afford them in the 16th century

Blackout Bowen is the biggest greenwasher of them all

That was enlightening. You guys at the AI rock. Love your work.

Both Richard and Polly do an awesome job of clearly defining how poorly successive governments have behaved. It's no surprise that we're seeing the term State Capture becoming more and more relevant.

How to destroy a country in one easy go!!

Considering carefully the effectiveness of washing over the throughly clear evidence of imminent destruction, financially, medically and security of living standards, it would be more relevant to describe this problem as "gangrene washing" over the assassin bug policies of the fossil fuel extraction-without-paying conquest of nationl domestic interest, human interests that are dying in so many ways.

Parliament house should have a sign on the front door "Consumer Beware, Contains Nuts".

the “critical decade” phrase was used about the 2010-2020 decade, because to avoid very dangerous /catastrophic climate change meant we needed to start mitigation and see *reducing* emissions across that decade at the latest. BZE was using the phrase as early as 2011 in public presentation on a weekly basis. even then 50% of the GBR was gone (more associated with water pollution from livestock production and overfishing) and furring that decade we lost another 50% of the remaining pristine reefs (mostly up north away from dirty river outflows) due to ocean warming. this decade has been referred to as the decade of consequences. instead of mitigating over the critical decade our emissions rose, everywhere, even in the USA that looks like reduction on paper but methane generation displaced coal generation and its emissions are largely under accounted for and hidden and obscured using misleading accounting under UNFCCC standards.

Yup we jumped ship from powershop

Step 1: Take away the APH all access passes to industry lobbyists who clearly have conflicts of interest. The government works for us, not business. Step 2: Political donations from business need to be 100% transparent, to the point that there is a real-time list published on a weekly or even daily basis.

You talk about going green, What about the lead foundry in Port Pirie SA both lead & sulphuric acid fumes & an opaque yellow powder. Corrodes corregated iron roofs as far as Solomontown.

So how come I don't get rewarded as a Mobile Massage Business for running an EV????

Big Brother embraces newspeak as he tightens his grip?

Listening to this continues to annoy the heck out of me. Why is this stuff not common logic? Lying is wrong. We need our environment. This all just feels like a waste of time.

Greenwashing working examples: -The current emissions reduction target doesn't include reductions in exported embedded emissions in Australian fossil fuel exports. - anyone in a position of power can mislabel Human-caused Global Warming something type-, cause and epoch-ambiguous like the meta-term "climate change" or any number of self-exonerating pseudonyms currently in use.

"Is this bloke nuts"

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To Kirilly Cosmic Space Priestess... My point is that the subject title makes little difference. Pick any facet of today's society and tell us how AI has benefitted the outcome.

Was that glass of water nice and refreshing?

All this time wasted for a fake agenda. Wish i could get paid to talk about something thats means nothing..

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I wish politicians had to publish their personal balance sheets.

Are you hiring? I used to work BHP Billiton. There are literally no jobs in America now.

Do you have real living human beings running. your government over there? I wonder about those in America. Being alive that is.