We’ve made some strides on the renewables front yes but it’s never been enough. We’re still increasing our carbon output year on year, due mostly to the political willpower for renewables simply not existing. Two years ago we had a prime minister who didn’t acknowledge climate change. The fact that we’ve got any renewables at all is simply because of the economics of it. We get so much sun it’s impossible for us to not lead the world on solar, and yet our government still drags their feet on renewables (yes, even Labor are barely any better on environmental issues).
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abhibeckert@lemmy.world 11 months agoSpeaking as an Australian we’re also not super great at embracing the whole renewables thing
Erm… Australia has the highest (per capita) number of rooftop solar installations in the world and one of our states (south Australia) is already 99.8% renewable when the weather is favourable (and they are still rapidly deploying more - expecting to get to 100% even in shitty weather long before almost any other country in the world).
R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
set_secret@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Erm, you’re forgetting our massive coal exports which we have to take into consideration. Our rooftop solar doesn’t count for shit if we’re providing excess co2 tp the rest of the planet.
Additionally we’ve never had a year of lower emissions yet, we’ve only achieved to slow the rate of increase.