Russell Broadbent here, your Federal Member for Monash.
Air New Zealand has achieved first place in quitting the race to 2030 carbon emissions targets.
What this achievement shows is that they are the first in the airline industry to acknowledge a very obvious reality:
With today’s technology, there is no path to meet net zero without significant compromise.
For our country, that compromise would mean ruining what is left of the manufacturing industry.
And for our airlines, the compromise could come in many forms, but I imagine we’d feel it in the cost of airfares, regardless.
Australia has an abundance of natural resources which should mean ‘it’s a no brainer’ for industry to set up shop here.
The problem is that we actually lock up our natural resources so that only a few companies get their benefit - and they just ship it all overseas.
I’m tired of the zero-carbon pipe dream. Common-sense says that an obsession on carbon emissions alone is not going to improve our stewardship of the Earth.
Sustainability means to maintain productivity in the long run.
Let’s support a sustainable Australia by encouraging the use of our natural resources.
That’s Justice as I see it.
