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While the Prime Minister is away, Josh Frydenberg has seemingly come out in support of net zero by 2050 and says the nation will be left behind if we don’t commit to reducing carbon emissions.
In a few hours, Scott Morrison is due to meet with British PM Boris Johnson and President Biden to show each other their dicks and perhaps chat briefly about how to coral China in the South China Sea with nuclear submarines.
Both Biden and Johnson have pressured Morrison to rejig the Australian economy so it’s not so reliant on digging things out of the Earth or railroading young people into buying the most hyperinflated property in the world.
Speaking to The Advocate this morning, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said that change needs to come and it needs to come before we all get left behind.
“It’s not like I’m some sort of bored, rich old toff like Julian Burnside who’s having a sook because the polar bears are too hot,” said Josh.
“From a strictly economic viewpoint, it makes absolute sense to transition our economy away from carbon. It makes sense because the rest of the world is doing it. Who are we going to trade with? Bulgaria? Hungary? Even North Korea is speaking up about the impacts of climate change on their ability to grow crops,”
“While Scott’s away, we have to get stuff done. We have to prepare for the future.”
The Advocate reached out to the Prime Minister’s Office for comment but has yet to receive a reply.
More to come.
