He was quoted as saying there was “no sense in signing up to targets you don’t have any prospect of achieving”.
Targets your own coalition signed up for when in power? Give me a break. This is nothing more than contrarianism to cover for his lack of credible policy.
The longer we put off dealing with this climate crisis, which is already devastating our country with fires and floods, the more difficult and expensive it becomes. Walking back this commitment but saying we’ll still reach nett zero by 2050 is just typical neoliberal fantasy, kicking the can down the road so rheir mates can profit off exploiting our natural resources a little longer, while they gut & privatise our public services. I wish our politicians would come up with something original and not squarely based on being contrary to the powers at be. Solving climate change (and all the other problems brought on by late stage capitalism) needs cooperation from both sides of the political spectrum, difficult, but not impossible.
Peter Dutton accused of trying to ‘rip up’ Australia’s commitment to Paris climate agreement (www.theguardian.com)