Australia. Brought to you by gas robber baron Santos

This says it all about Australia at COP26:

Is Australia even there? Or is it Santos with a national fag hag attached. There’s more here if you want to heave.

Notice the finely crafted aboriginal motifs, the serene and clean ocean blue, the endorsement for CCS that doesn’t exist.

This is why Scott Morrison attended the event. To announce GasKeeper. Not to push carbon mitigation or net-zero forward but to gaslight the event on behalf of his rogue gas robber baron sponsor.

This is so spectacularly and openly corrupt that it shows a complete detachment from reality.

Ipso facto if Australians want action on climate change then they will have to force it.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.