Plant trees

ALARMINGLY Australia has already warmed by 1.47C (CSIRO State of the Climate reports 11/2022) which is a smidgen below the target of 1.5 per cent for this century.

Clearly Australia has no hope of meeting this target.

We contribute just over 1 per cent of the world’s emissions therefore we have a negligible chance to reverse our heating.

Buying anything that is not made using renewable energy no matter what it is will only increase emissions.

The EVs we are buying contribute more to emissions than ICE cars. The stupidity of our politicians spending our billions on these is not for emission but for votes. Scientists are now recognising that the world will fail to reduce emissions.

Six nations produce over 60 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions. Eighty out of 208 countries produce zero emissions.

The next 115 countries (including Australia) each have a maximum 1.1 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions that totals to 28.61 per cent for an average emissions of 0.25 per cent of the world’s total.

The countries that produce more carbon emission than Australia’s 1.1 per cent are responsible for 71.46 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions.

These are the countries that we buy from and therefore contribute to emissions far more than our carbon output.

The actions by our Greens and our politicians are all an effective “greenwash” as they will have a minuscule effect on the world temperature.

Wake up woke dreamers to what we must do.

That CSIRO State of the Climate report released this week is alarming on the failures in what the world is doing.

Scientists are now exploring the possibility of carbon removal from the atmosphere, which is unproven. Science is recommending the planting of trees. Carbon removal by tree planting, mangrove restoration and enhanced soil carbon are the way to reduce the world’s carbon emissions.

This has been known and advocated for decades. That demonstrates how stupid we have been and continue to take the same path of doing nothing about this. Certainly aim for some renewables but the real way forward is to rebuild the environment we have destroyed.

That is a mitigation process as there is no way that Australia can have any effect on overall carbon emissions.

We must take action to mitigate the problems of flooding, erratic rainfall and to ensure food production is secure. Our own environment is the answer.

The government must initiate regrowth of forests.

The government must make sure that existing flood pone houses are replaced with safe homes and have a government insurance company that will insure these flood prone areas until the houses can be moved or replaced.

Everyone should be planting trees etc on their property.

Housing must prioritise greening and green spaces, its known as a back yard.

Forget this rubbish about EVs until they are developed to be effective.

Ross Kroger, Barwon Heads