Clive Bibby: Rats leaving the sinking ship

The final COP30 report says it all really.

If ever there was evidence that the Climate Change zealots have lost control of their once universally accepted false doctrine, this is it.

You don't have to be a sycophantic supporter of the message that is based on a false premise – that fossil fuel use and livestock green house gas emissions are the main cause of global warming - in order to realise that the world has been duped by those who refuse to accept their own scientific truths.

My guess is that the real reason why fossil fuel use is not mentioned in the final communique is because the price of membership is simply beyond what most nations are prepared to pay.

It is interesting to note that even the rich nations who have been flogging this "dead horse" mantra ever since it became instrumental in helping to win elections (particularly in first world countries like Australia) are now trying to explain their conditional support for policies that have sent energy prices through the roof.

Of course their politically correct adoption of these social and economically destructive programmes (resulting in unaffordable energy prices) is now ranging as the one thing that will ensure their days on the treasury benches are numbered.

But ironically, the key to their demise will also be a factor in determining opposition parties ability to sense the public mood and react in time with counter policies that are capable of repairing the widespread damage.

Same goes for governments currently in power like out own National led coalition.

The cost of energy and finding a long term solution that will keep prices at acceptable levels is the one thing that will determine the type of future governments we choose.

In the context of this issue and how it is affecting economic growth, it is understandable why previoysly agnostic c⁸ountries have chosen or are seriously considering the nuclear option as being the most cost efficient and reliable source of clean energy.

I believe that future governments throughout the world, including ones like ours who have previously rejected the nuclear option, will be forced to adopt policies that are a mix of fossil fuel based generation and affordable nuclear alternatives.

That doesn't mean that wind and solar do not have a place in the mix but their unreliability will ensure their use is limited to being a backup.

In the end, the energy policies we adopt will determine not only the governments we deserve but, and probably more importantly, the nature and speed of our economic growth.

You can't have one without the other.

Clive Bibby is a commentator, consultant, farmer and community leader, who lives in Tolaga Bay.