Wake up Ross – net-zero's a scam

June 5, 2025

Ross Gittins lathers in Indigenous outrage over the (highly staged) Woodside decision, correctly noting it’s an absolute free-kick in tax/levy terms.

What he’s still not ready to countenance about this massively corrupt deal, what’s completely beyond Michael Keating’s article the day previous, is the unmentionable that net-zero itself is a historic scam, another glorious happy birthday for Australia’s political classes to have a big lend of hapless voters.

After three sainted decades of UN “climate action”, nearly a decade of their “net zero”, global population, emissions, CO2, temperatures keep rising. What a surprise!

I mean, all they’re saying is human brainiacs can heroically downsize carbon emissions A, upscale carbon captures B, Planet Earth will take on this inspirational geo-engineering no worries, and obligingly equate A minus B to 0. Eight (ten) billions of us, our trashed ecosphere, rescued.

That Earth battles to absorb half our emissions means nothing. Sometime in the 2040s, maybe, it’ll learn how to behave, emissions-charts will bend it like Beckham, there will be environmental rainbows. Now, back to the universal program of endless growth…