he is not legislating it because 1/ he can’t; and 2/ he doesn’t want to.
1. The government does not have the numbers to legislate their re-announced existing inadequate target because of all the Coalition climate denialists.
2. Morrison is leader of the denialist factions.
1. The government does not have the numbers to legislate their re-announced existing inadequate target because of all the Coalition climate denialists.
2. Morrison is leader of the denialist factions.
when ousted former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tried to legislate a target, and despite being cheered on by the press gallery, he failed. He was then taken out by the climate denialists in the Liberal Party room, led by Scott Morrison.
Abbott also mobilised climate denialists in the Liberal Party room to oust Malcolm Turnbull, in 2009. He then repealed the legislated Labor emissions reduction policy, a policy which lowered emissions. It is an existing Abbott era target that Morrison re-announced yesterday.
this can not be overstated. The reason the Morrison government is not passing genuine emissions reduction policy into law is: they do not have the numbers. There are too many Coalition politicians who support increasing emissions. Morrison is one of them.
last week Keith Pitt told RN “the climate is always changing”, a common formulation used by coal expansion proponents. This week Scott Morrison promoted him. The coal barons don’t give a fuck about unlegislated announcements as long as they have their men in cabinet.
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