This election, are the teals ready to take on the fossil fuel lobby that’s captured the major parties? | Jeff Sparrow

Wilson was recentlyas saying he has always had an “open mind” on climate science and “like everybody I’ve been on a journey with this. I’m not trying to pretend otherwise.” Does that mean he now thinks that he was wrong? If so, let’s hear him apologise. Or has Wilson calculated, like the fossil fuel companies themselves, that today airy environmental promises will serve him better thanTo their credit, Daniel and the other independents have put climate front and centre in their campaigns.

That would make more sense had the Australian climate debate been polarised between two equally misguided extremes. But that’s not the problem at all. On the contrary, the major parties stand shoulder-to-shoulder behind commitments at odds with what the IPCC says we require. We’ve had plenty of “sensible centrism” – climate action now depends on a willingness to fight. On paper, the teals’ pledges look much better than those offered by the majors. They’d theoretically allowBut implementing their program would mean taking on the fossil fuel lobby that’s captured the major parties. It would mean a battle against the corporate giants that are betting on humanity’s failure.

Are the teals prepared for that kind of struggle? Maybe that’s a rude question. But in the last days before a crucial climate election, we can’t worry about being polite. In a decade’s time, no one will care whether Albanese could recite all six points of a Labor policy. But, unless something changes, the blackened, dead coral off the coast of Queensland will provide a permanent reminder of the choices made in 2022.

Surely God gave us all these fossil fuels to use and advance humanity beyond our wildest imaginations.

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