MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 21
st, 2024 at 8:38am:
Daves2017 wrote on Sep 20
th, 2024 at 8:41pm:
It’s the Howard/ Rudd big Australian plan.
Rest the develop world has cornered our leaders to accept their non desirable and as a petty country on the world stage to save face they have agreed.
It’s simple as .
How else can I prime minister explain away being paid more than the American president?
Do as we told, rich get richer , poor poorer, Australia so far this millennium.
Across the West and in East Asia. the population is in serious decline, and in some cases, in terminal decline.
Yet we all still want our standard of living to remain high and our 'stuff' readily available and cheap.
We want our infrastructure to continue to improve, our health system to remain 'the envy of the world', and our income to jest get better and better.
What we're not prepared to do, is have kids at a rate commensurate with all of the above being locally sustainable.
If not immigration to manage the problem... Then what?
bit of a ponzi scheme there meister
if you visit the outer suburbs, there are no hospitals, no new public transport,
just endless rows of dog box housing and people doing service jobs to service all the social problems that come from this barren existence
and our standard of living was so high because of cheap fossil fuels
period
20 litres of deisel enable me to do the work of 100 men doing manual labour for a week
take away cheap energy and standards of living will plummett.
victorians may die of the cold next winter
mains gas will not be available
and you just try and make bricks,concrete, timber, tiles, stainless steel without cheap fossil fuel power.
the costs have doubled in the last 5 years and so will the cost of new housing
its a simple choice
burn coal like china and india (our coal by the way)
or accept a lower standard of living
pretty simple choice for me
i love the stoic life
but for a fat sloppy entitled fecker in the burbs..he wants his air con, his netflix, his home deliveries, his cheap sugary foods , his bulk billing, his free public hospital, his free nursing home
tough titties..he aint gunna get it