I’ve said what I’ve said, I stand by it and don’t really intend to keep arguing, but I’ll add that focussing on energy production is misleading and a distraction from the fact that there are far larger sources of emissions that we are responsible for. As I understand it the targets they’ve set are the way the industry was going regardless, I could pull the data and analyse it but I honestly can’t be bothered putting that much work in, the report here has some nice charts to give you an idea of how those gains where locked in prior to the 2022 election. If you’ve got data to backup that Labor is directly responsible for a significant portion of this I’d love to see it, because it’s very hard to find any analysis for that.

The economy argument is often thrown out by Labor, but it’s an exceptional flimsy one on two fronts. For one the wellbeing of people and the environment are significantly more important (fight me, the economy is a form of violence), but also resource extraction doesn’t really contribute that much to tax income anyway, it’s pretty much only good for the wealthy elites. They take in enormous profits, contribute next to nothing to the greater good all while writing off the immense harm as an externality. It’s a wealth transfer project, in short.

If Labor wants to show that they actually care, they’d nationalise all those extraction projects and put in a plan to halt all exports while securing the livelihoods of those in the industry.