Rudd is probably correct about this, but You Should Know that he’s also an arrogant fuckwit who tried to pass climate legislation that his own treasury modelling said wouldn’t reduce emissions for 25 years (since this was in 201p, that means we’d still be a decade away from emissions falling). Since the conservative Coalition was never going to support any climate policy, and the left wing Greens refused to suppose such a lazy token effort, that meant his centrist Labor party’s policy failed to pass.

And because he’s such an arrogant prick, he absolutely refused to negotiate to bring about a better policy. Instead, he eventually got ousted by his own party, and the replacement leader did negotiate and did pass real, meaningful climate policy. Until those fossil fuel interests helped the Coalition win the next election, Australia had world-leading reductions in CO~2~ emissions.

Oh, and that election loss was not helped by Rudd’s own white-anting from inside the Labor party…