Shameful as an Australian.

The legal argument was essentially, “bro our emissions are so minor on the worldwide scale that even if we’d met our targeted emissions reductiond it wouldn’t have made a measurable difference to today”. “- can’t hold the Aussie govt accountable for the rest of the world”.

So - whataboutism pointed at China and other nations.

Who the fuck digs up the coal and gas and iron ore and sends it to China and other industrial-centre nations knowing it will be burned / refined at great carbon cost? Oh that’s right, us.

We had a carbon tax for a hot minute that tried to capture these externalities into businesses so they couldn’t hide behind this rhetoric… and they lobbied and brainwashed the populace into voting out that govt the very next election, nearly 20 years ago.