> <i>When the vote came on May 18, it was not, as some had predicted, a watershed climate change election. Australians, especially in coal country, voted to keep the incumbent conservative coalition in power.</i><p>> <i>Within days, the Carmichael mine had new momentum.</i><p>One billionaire plus the Australian voting majority.<p>People like to say and act like, "Oh, I'm one person, what I do doesn't matter," but that's rationalizing the decision not to act. Individual behavior makes a difference. I don't just mean using less air conditioning to conserve power, though that matters too. People can influence and lead each other.
According to Mark Blyth ( Prof. of political economy at Brown ).<p>India is going to continue to build 200 more coal powered plants despite knowing exactly how awful climate change is going to be for India.<p>Pakistan is following similar strategy.<p>The idea is that Europe/US have more to lose due to climate change, so when time comes they can use these coal fired plants as a bargaining chip ("bribe") for technology transfer, better trade deals, etc.<p>I do not agree or disagree with his assessment, it could very well be true.<p>But if you are India, spending MORE money to fix climate change wont make much of a difference as the biggest polluters are US / CHINA / EU.<p>So a MAD type strategy makes sense from their perspective.
Many here may not realise that there's massive problems with this crackpot deal cooked up by our politicians: It's actually 'protected' by Indigenous (Aboriginal) Land Rights.<p><a href="https://wanganjagalingou.com.au/our-fight/" rel="nofollow">https://wanganjagalingou.com.au/our-fight/</a><p>> <i>We do hereby firmly REJECT a Land Use Agreement with Adani for the Carmichael mine on our traditional lands.<p>We DO NOT consent to the Carmichael mine on our ancestral lands.<p>We DO NOT accept Adani’s “offers” to sign away our land and our rights and interests in it. We will not take their “shut up” money.<p>We will PROTECT and DEFEND our Country and our connection to it.
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Apparently the profitability of the future Adani mine in Queensland will not be assured [1], however I would guess the coal power plants Adani owns will make up for that.<p>How can India meet the Paris agreement[2] while letting Adani build new coal power plants?<p>[1] <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-numbers-on-adani-simply-don-t-add-up-20190524-p51qoy.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-numbers-on-ada...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Paris_Agreement" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Paris...</a>