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This is not Senator Matt Canavan’s hand pried open.<\/p><\/div>\n

As grim acceptance among the Coalition of having to lift their game on climate change grows, so too have the rumblings from some members about the prying of coal out of cold, dead hands.<\/p>\n

Coal supporter Senator Matt Canavan has been in fine form again recently, posting on Sunday<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I am deadset against net zero emissions. Just look at the disaster the UK is living through. They’re switching off their industry to keep their lights on, and they are struggling to feed themselves. Net zero emissions would just make us weaker.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not a lot of wiggle room in that assessment. But the UK situation is more to do with the impacts of Brexit, COVID and a few other issues<\/a>, including reliance on fossil fuels.\u00a0To pin it on the pursuit of net zero is incorrect.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the topic of COVID, Senator Canavan also weighed in yesterday<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Trying to get to net zero is like trying to get back to COVID zero. Both are unattainable and it will cost us a bomb of [sic] we try.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The comparison is actually good in one way. Like fossil fuels, COVID has caused disruption, misery, illness and death. A shedload of cash has been spent across the world in battling it because, well, disruption, misery, illness and death.<\/p>\n

In A Fight Between COVID And Coal, Who Would Win?<\/h2>\n

But COVID has been somewhat a rank amateur grim reaper compared to the impact of burning fossil fuels. This is thanks in part to the huge amounts of resources invested in trying for COVID zero initially and more recently to just reining it in as we prepare for what’s ahead. Mistakes have been made and will be made, but for the most part, we’ve been giving this reasonably new threat a red-hot go and throwing everything we can at it.<\/p>\n

Fossil fuels are an old threat we have lots of knowledge about. The impacts from cooking our planet, poisoning waterways and degrading land aside, a study out of Harvard University early this year estimated the number of deaths<\/a> attributable just to fine particle pollution generated by fossil fuel combustion in 2018 alone was 8 million.<\/p>\n

Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, approximately 4.76 million have died with COVID so far.<\/p>\n

Hopefully we’ll be able to live with COVID assuming an even nastier and vaccine-resistant strain doesn’t evolve, finishing the job we seem hell-bent on doing on ourselves.<\/p>\n

But there is no jab for emissions that will vaccinate us against their effects – and we know what we have to do. A lot of cash has been spent and will need to be spent to reach net zero, and mistakes will be made – but it’s a cost vs. value situation.<\/p>\n

For example, it costs a significant amount of money to install solar panels. But that upfront cost is more than offset by the value of the savings they bring, whether it’s a small-scale rooftop solar installation or a massive solar farm. The emissions reduction is of course a great and increasingly important bonus; as are the jobs that accompany sales, installation and service.<\/p>\n

But unlike the COVID zero situation (unless it burns itself out), net zero emissions is doable.<\/p>\n

Debate on the merits of anything is good and healthy, but suggestions such as it being unattainable or renewables being the “dole bludgers of energy”<\/a> are not accurate or helpful to the debate.<\/p>\n

If we invested the resources (time, effort, money) dedicated to propping up fossil fuels into pursuing safe, proven and viable net zero emissions technologies such as renewable energy and storage, who knows how much further along the track and how much better prepared we would be to deal with the other curve balls the world throws at us; such as the UK is experiencing.<\/p>\n

Turning to leader of the pack Prime Minister Scott Morrison now, in one of his many comments about the impacts of COVID during the pandemic, the PM said:<\/p>\n

“We’re all in this together.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the pursuit of net-zero emissions with firm targets requires pretty much the same mindset given the time we have left to really get things happening and perhaps avoid the worst that climate change could throw at us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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