Reassessing Priorities Down Under

AUSTRALIA exports and greatly profits from natural gas and coal sales, more than any other nation, mainly to China. Predictaby, therefore, Waltzing Matilda has of late tended to elect conservative, climate change denying, pro money pro atmospheric carbon content governments, of the sort with which the American MAGA crowd have been so longingly familiar of late. A rare departure from Australia's conservative suicidal nonsense was their decision to buy back firearms and confiscate the one's not bought back, and to strictly regualte the remaining arms, after which, of course, gun deaths precipitously declined, predictably. Then came the violent storms, the lingering droughts, and the massive wildfires which burned nearly a quarter of the island to the ground, killing as many as a billion animals, including a few human. Scorching landscapes, sacraments of climate change. Perceptive progressives unerstood that Australia was lowering itslef into the ocean, in effect, along with all the other nightmares. That'll get your attention quicker than a cold can of Fosters, matie. They elected a progressive government, which reversed course. Down under is so designed by God and nature to be the perfect venue for both wind and solar energy, both of which began to be heavily encourged, subsidized, and invested in, capitalistically. Soon, lord willing and the creek don't rise as we say in America, Australia will be able to generate enough sustainable enrgy to fuel not only itself, but China in particular, and the world as well. The world needs only to take a paper thin sheet of circular highly reflective aluminum, place in in oribt so as to follow the sun, and energy supplies become infinite, and cheap to the point of being free. Te only real resistance to this salvation of the planet comes from, as you have doubtless by now guessed, malignant conservatism, which curretnly sweeps the world with its "populist" anti-expert anti-science demagogic idiocy, as we Americans well know. The very moment these benighted minions of Trumpism become ware that windmills do not cause cancer, that science works, and that we cannot "bring back coal" because the free market has long since priced it out of the market, we can get on with our ecosystem saving work. Don't hold your breath, but vote progressive, and, perhaps, pray.