Release of 2003 Australian🇦🇺 Cabinet papers from Howard Government shows that Australia went to war in Iraq beside the USA with no full weighing the pros and cons of the Australian intervention.
There were also three major opportunities missed:
establish a sovereign wealth fund to invest the temporary windfall gains from the mining boom.
establish an emissions trading scheme.
advance progress on constitutional recognition of Indigenous people.
Of course you all already knew that all this shit about #CarbonTrading and #CarbonOffsetting was never about anything but fraud and greed. Of course you were angry about Brewdog et al's theft of land in Scotland, and #ScotGov's complicity in it. But have you thought about the consequences of that for the #GlobalSouth?
Over 𝟙𝟝𝟛,𝟘𝟘𝟘 square km of Canadian land were burned in 2023, bigger than South Korea's total land area of 𝟙𝟘𝟘,𝟛𝟛𝟡 square km.
In 2023, the number of burned areas in #Canada is nearly double the 1995 record.
As of August 2023, 𝟝,𝟠𝟠𝟙 fires have been reported across Canada.
Forest fires in Canada this year have released 𝟚𝟡𝟘 𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕤 of carbon, doubling a previous annual record, account for over 𝟚𝟝% of the global total for 2023 to date.
Every business that claims it is #CarbonNeutral based on so-called carbon trading, every politician who promotes #CarbonTrading schemes, should be treated as criminal. This is deliberate deception.