The Climate Crisis Isn’t an Emergency—It’s Policy
You don’t have to be a scientist to understand what’s happening in Dickson, or anywhere else in Australia. The evidence is written across our skies and landscapes - searing heat, violent storms, unaffordable insurance, floods that turn communities into disaster zones. This isn’t climate “change.” It’s collapse. And it isn’t just happening. It’s being engineered - approved, subsidised, and expanded by the people who claim to be fixing it.
For all the hand-wringing in Canberra, one truth is deliberately avoided: the climate crisis is not a natural disaster. It is a business model.
Bipartisan Destruction Disguised as Pragmatism
Labor came to power on a platform of climate “action.” They then approved over two dozen new coal and gas projects. Not in defiance of their agenda, but in fulfillment of it. This is not a failure of implementation. It is the policy.
At the same time, they hand billions in taxpayer money - $11 billion annually - to fossil fuel corporations. They give the green light to destruction in the Beetaloo Basin, Scarborough, Pilliga Forest, and then offer up soundbites about renewables as if that offsets geological catastrophe.
And the Liberals? Their answer is a nuclear fantasy that won’t arrive for 20 years and will cost hundreds of billions - if it ever arrives. But that’s not the point. The goal isn’t solutions. It’s delay. It’s cover. It’s to protect fossil fuel profits at the expense of human futures.
Both parties have taken millions in donations from the coal, oil, and gas industries. That’s not incidental. That’s the operating system.
Fossil Fuel Expansion Isn’t a Bug—It’s a Feature
Australia’s emissions are rising under Labor. The media treats it as a minor contradiction. In reality, it’s the outcome of a system designed not to solve the crisis but to manage its optics. A solar panel on every roof won’t save us if the government keeps opening methane-leaking gas fields and digging more coal. That’s not a transition - it’s greenwashing at planetary scale.
The Greens: Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
The Greens are treated as outliers, not because they’re unrealistic, but because they are the only political force willing to state the obvious: we cannot end the climate crisis while expanding the industries causing it.
Their plan aligns with the science:
- No new coal, oil, or gas projects - ever.
- End public subsidies for corporations fueling planetary collapse.
- A fair, managed transition for existing fossil fuel workers - because justice includes the people who’ve been exploited by this system too.
- Publicly owned renewable energy - where profits don’t vanish into offshore accounts but return to communities.
- Real investment in solar, electrification, home upgrades, and climate resilience - cutting emissions and bills simultaneously.
- Tens of thousands of new jobs in the only industries with a future.
- A climate strategy rooted in ecosystems, not quarterly profits.
And it will be paid for the only moral way: by taxing the ultra-rich and dismantling corporate welfare for industries that have made climate collapse their business model.
Delay Is a Decision
Every coal mine approval, every gas expansion, is not just inaction - it’s complicity. It is a decision to sacrifice lives for short-term profits. It is the state choosing the economy of death over the possibility of survival.
Imagine instead a country powered by the sun, where jobs are built on creation, not extraction. Where our children inherit a livable world, not an open-cut grave.
That future is possible. But it will not be granted. It must be demanded.
This Election: The Last Illusion Dies
Labor offers contradictions. The Liberals offer denial. The Greens offer reality.
In just one term, Greens MPs have blocked new fossil fuel projects, secured caps on emissions, and forced billions into clean energy.
But time is not on our side.
Vote to stop the destruction.
Vote for a livable climate, sustainable jobs, and systemic honesty.
Vote to challenge a political class that profits from collapse.
Because if this decade is not the turning point - it will be the tipping point.
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