Comment on Australia urgently needs to get serious about long-term climate policy – but there’s no sign of that in the election campaign

null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Well yeah but we also need to prioritise global trade, the economy, jobs and growth, health, education, cost of living, home ownership, and so on and so forth.

ALP’s policy is to achieve 82% renewable energy by 2030.

The Liberal’s policy is to pivot to nuclear which is just another way of saying “keep burning coal indefinitely”.

The reason no one is talking about these things is because it’s not a priority for the electorate.

That said, Liberal’s nuclear policy seems like a weak point to me and I suspect Labor are holding it in reserve in case they need to regain the narrative at some point or to roll it out in the final week of the campaign.

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