How far from reality have we moved
Australia, which from a carbon emissions perspective emits a little more than 1% of so called carbon pollution has been told by pacific island nations it must abondon its coal fired power stations and coal mines in order to prevent the effects of climate change.
This has happened at the Pacific Islands Forum, an important meeting of small nations, many of whom suffer the effects of rising waters. No mention of the big contributors, China and the US. No, we destroy our industries so we can be said to have done something which will do nothing to solve their problem, which happens to be that they settled on sand spits which are inundated at high tide. What I say is, we will accept these people when they decide to become refugees and cease clinging to their sinking islands. So, China can build sand islands let China contribute its expertise to build up these places or do the very thing they want us to do, abandon their industries