ECOWORLD AUSTRALIA

Big Brother is all grown up now. (I found it easier to watch at 1.5 playback speed) youtu.be/Um-TVmzzK_g?si…

@PeterDClack We have to stop burning stuff to make energy

Dismantling the world's reliable power structure of coal, oil, and gas - without a planet-wide substitute - could be the greatest and costliest error of judgment in history. Despite decades of installing wind turbines and solar panels - at enormous cost - intermittent renewables remain unable to replicate the dense, reliable energy of hydrocarbons without fossil-fuel backup. Replacing the world grid for intermittent power carries a nominal price tag of $178 trillion 'so far'; McKinsey Global (2022) estimates the total transition by 2050 at $275 trillion. No one appears to have thought through the colossal pitfalls that lie a decade or two ahead. This building spree already suggests waves of environmental degradation, as picturesque landscapes, coastal vistas, and farmland are hijacked for wind and solar 'farms'. The resulting shockwave could send modern nations into an irreversible economic slide as early as 2030, while blocking all modernisation efforts across the Global South. It is a stark reversal of history. These universally successful energy sources are credited with the emergence of all modernity - the spark that exploded in the Industrial Revolution. Humankind first used coal in China around 3490 BC and later by the Aztecs. The Greeks and Romans used it for metal forging, and Marco Polo famously documented the use of 'black stones' for fuel in 13th-century China. Crucially, coal was the primary driver of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, providing the intense heat needed to generate steam and power factories, trains, and ships during the icy depths of the Little Ice Age - a desperate era of cold and starvation. Today, there are still vast known and untapped reserves of coal, oil and gas. Proven reserves alone are staggering: Coal: 1.06 trillion tonnes (approx. 132 years remaining). Gas: 7,299 trillion cubic feet (approx. 143 years remaining). Oil: 1.65 trillion barrels (approx. 53 years remaining). Yet the actual volume could be two or three times as much, lasting another three centuries. This abundance challenges the very nomenclature of 'fossil fuels', pointing instead to a profoundly abiotic, self-sustaining origin. Look to the cosmos: hydrocarbons are a fundamental building block of the universe, detected on rocky planets, icy moons, gas giants, and primitive comets. Saturn’s moon Titan is the reigning champion, with a thick nitrogen-methane atmosphere that rains liquid methane and ethane into massive surface seas like Ligeia Mare. Titan holds hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth. Closer to home, NASA’s Curiosity Rover has detected ancient organic molecules, including long-chain hydrocarbons like propane and benzene, preserved in Martian mudstones inside Gale Crater. Meanwhile, the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are rich in methane, which breaks down under intense pressure to form complex chains like ethane and acetylene. Even primitive bodies - like Comet Halley and the asteroid Ryugu - are heavily laden with complex carbon-bearing molecules. If the raw chemistry of hydrocarbons occurs abundantly across the frozen depths of the solar system, we must question the sacrifices demanded for net-zero. Could humankind survive such a bureaucratic blind alley?

What would you do if this was tomorrow’s headline? Is this where you see Australia going?

@___TheGOOdWitch @HobbsSteven You’re not alone in thinking this…thankfully. I have a theory there are two different brain types. Those that can’t think critically and those who can. Some are just so scared of death they neeed an afterlife to live life. Zero logic skills

And Everyone fighting about who’s invisible man is the real one

@stokdog It’s not that “clean” that’s the problem. Highly toxic radioactive waste that lasts for centuries, is rightly considered a bad thing to keep producing & storing to leak later. While renewables are by their nature recycled on multiple levels. U seem to never consider externalities

It's absolutely insane that Australia, home to 30% of the world's uranium reserves, still bans nuclear power, the cleanest, most reliable baseload energy on the planet. While households cop skyrocketing bills, it's stuck with an unreliable renewables experiment that's failing.

@HuxleyMick @stokdog Yeah her new teacher is a real gem 🙄

@stokdog We are Stuffed till One Nation. 2 years , Hold Tight !!

Selling millions of metric tonnes of coal annually to China to power their ~1,200 coal plants (and growing) is fine. 18 coal fired plants in Australia is an emissions problem. Hit ♥️ if you think Australians are being scammed by net zero grifters

@stokdog What price do you put on atmospheric poisoning? Pro burning-stuff advocates never seem to be able to grasp that the smoke/toxins are trapped inside the spherical atmosphere that all life forms have to live in. Run your ICE car in a closed garage for an hour & get back to us 🙄

@ZhaoMingObserve @PaulineHansonOz One Nation are using the tried & tested Trump immigrants blame game to use people’s bigotry to get votes. Have u seen how well that’s working out for Americans? Trump wants an authoritarian dictatorship.

@PaulineHansonOz One nation will have a major win in elections like what happened in UK.🇬🇧 I’m a TWU member for many years, and I’ve been voting for Labor over 22 years. But in next election I and many my workmates will give our votes to One Nation to balance two-party system failure in 🇦🇺.

One Nation is putting Liberal and Labor on notice: The Australian people won’t be forgotten about. Parliament is there to serve the people.

I want to thank NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns for acknowledging One Nation’s consistency and honesty on energy policy. End net-zero, stop renewables over prime farmland, build coal fired power stations and lift the ban on nuclear!

@johnrhanger The energy retailers need to become more humble and change direction otherwise they will experience even more of the death spiral demise they are currently perpetuating. Prices rise/more people go off grid and so on

Good morning with good news: Australia's main grid may reach its goal of 82% renewable electricity by 2030, as a result of a big boom in rooftop solar and home battery systems! About 400,000 homes installed 11.2 GWh of batteries in 10 months... reneweconomy.com.au/blows-your-min…

@ABCmediawatch They’re called a “Shouse”

Hold on, what was the reporter’s name? #MediaWatch

@7NewsSydney I wouldn’t be surprised if the Gas lobby were crapping their pants about “Tax the Gas” and instructed the ALP to toss us some new distraction instead that would cause a different outrage target. Follow the money

Anthony Albanese’s Budget has become the most unpopular since the Paul Keating era, with new polling showing collapsing support for major parties and growing voter frustration over broken promises and cost-of-living pressures.

@LonglivHumanity @7NewsSydney 1 Nation are following Trumps authoritarian playbook, use bigotry to spark turmoil. LNP & Labor are different sides of the same coin. All are bought & paid for by billionaires. Independents will keep winning more seats in the next election. If we aren’t plunged into a WWIII first

@7NewsSydney Both young and old are deserting Labour and Liberals en-masse. They are moving to One Nation. It's no wonder One Nation is leading in opinion polls.

@1nf1n1teloop @7NewsSydney One Nation are following Trumps and other authoritarian regimes playbooks. They’re using immigration to set the population against itself while feeding the billionaires. Libertarians of old would fight with arms etc but today they’ve been tricked into following Trumpism

@7NewsSydney Givaways for foreign investors. Families, small business, entrepreneurs, young people just got robbed of their future! And when your parents pass away, Albo will rob you again! I've had enough of this! One Nation & Libertairians will give Australia back to the people! 🙄👍🦘🇦🇺

@7NewsSydney It’s only unpopular to the LNP and One Nation parties that would prefer an authoritarian government or whatever their lobbyist bosses tell them to like. That 49% of independent voters will only grow leading up the next election

@7NewsSydney Nobody believes channel 7, they’re shills for the fossil fuel lobbyists. Labor and LNP are just different sides of the same coin, next election will see many more independents win seats because Aussies are sick of them

We believed AI would try to destroy us. Turns out we’re just using it to destroy ourselves - & everything else.

@DavidPocock @PeterDGardner Yeah we need the equivalent of The Thunderbirds to fight the fires and rescue flooded properties. We know those two major events happen every year so why not prepare for exactly that? It’s not rocket science Albo. Fire fighting drones would have to be epic scale hardware.

Warnings of a super El Niño are a reminder that climate preparedness can’t wait. We need investment in disaster readiness including firefighting capability like drones, stronger community resilience & electrification. Delay now means higher costs later. smh.com.au/environment/cl…

“It seems to be entirely lost on the government . . . that Australia’s natural gas does NOT belong to them. "Australia's natural gas resource belongs to ALL Australians." – Andrew Wilkie MP ✍️ Sign to support a 25% gas export tax ➡️ theaus.in/4dA4uYZ

Most Australians believe this type of “cash for access” is corrupt. abc.net.au/news/2026-05-1… australiainstitute.org.au/post/most-aust…