Cultists claim climate change will be worse than COVID-19
As the world faces a legitimate crisis those who profit from spruiking the fake climate catastrophe have started to get anxious that they are no longer the main focus. There are billions of dollars up for grabs as the federal government attempts to pull Australia back from economic ruin with stimulus but very little of that will trickle into the coffers of climate cultists. Activists at the Climate Council hope to change that. Theyve released research dubbed The Clean Jobs Plan and have billed it as the solution to rebuilding Australias economy after it lost 830,000 jobs to COVID-19. The only problem is their plan will cost billions of dollars and create just tens of thousands of jobs. In one scenario, the Climate Council is asking governments to spend $2.25 billion employing 15,000 people to install solar and wind farms and batteries. The cost of a scheme is so inefficient that for every $1 million dollars taxpayers spend only 6.7 jobs would be created. And for a plan to retrofit public buildings it wants another $1.5 billion to employ 8,000 people to install energy-efficient lights or occupancy sensors. Each million dollars from this idea would yield just 5.3 jobs. Despite the glaring efficiency issues with the scheme, the Canberra Times swallowed the idea whole without question. How tackling climate change could help the ACT's coronavirus job crunch, the paper wrote. New modelling has claimed 1000 jobs could be created in the ACT that would help absorb some COVID-19 job losses while tackling climate change. Not once in the 400-word news article did the Canberra Times mention the exorbitant cost to taxpayers of each project. Imagine how these same journalists would scrutinise the document if it was written by a mining lobby or was leaked from a government meeting. In fact, that happened in May when the National COVID-19 Commission manufacturing report was leaked detailing a plan to boost the domestic gas industry, creating up to 412,000 new jobs by 2030. The energy reforms across all industries were expected to create 170,000 well paid direct jobs and up to 800,000 indirect jobs. How did the Canberra Times respond to that report? COVID-19 commission needs to come clean on gas industry links, the headline read. Hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money has been, and is going to be spent, on necessary fiscal measures before this pandemic is over. But poorly targeted spending will do damage to the economy, increase unemployment and prolong the recession. The livelihoods and well-being of hundreds of thousands of Australians hang in the balance. This was supposed to be a news article even though the first few paragraphs were simply emotion fuelled opinions by the writer. And other bizarre statements were published in the recent Canberra Times article without any pushback, including the claim that climate change was a bigger threat than the coronavirus which has killed hundreds of thousands of people in a matter of months. "COVID-19 is a crisis, it's clearly a crisis... however, the climate crisis is a way bigger crisis on a global basis and will have deeper and much more long-lasting effects," Climate Councillor Greg Bourne said in the Canberra Times. "Here is the opportunity to rebuild economies and get people back to work, which we need to do anyway but helping it fix the future rather than just replicate the past." It is a little disturbing a person can be so consumed by propaganda that they genuinely believe climate change is worse than 614,000 deaths and a global economic tragedy. But this line of rhetoric will intensify in coming months as the spotlight fades on their cause. Weve even seen it on an international scale with The UN-funded financial arm of the Paris Agreement labelling COVID-19 an opportunity to raise funds for climate change action and relaunch economies on low-emission, climate-resilient trajectories. Any tragedy is opportunity to make a quick buck, it seems. Image: Getty Read More Our Apps