I agree with the author 100%. But I would add that our very first priority should be to transition back to coal - we have the resources, the infrastructure and the expertise. It's tragic that there does not seem to be anyone in Federal Parliament with the gumption to denounce the global climate "change" fraud.

The global temperature change may or not be anthropogenic, my educated guess is that it is, but the increase in atmospheric CO2 certainly is, and if we don't get that back down by whatever means, our future is very problematic.

our future is very problematic.
VK3AUU,
The stupidity of so many that causes so much pollution actually emanates from the centres that proudly proclaim themselves as vital for our future.

The oceans have soaked up huge volumes of CO2. This is represented by carbonic acid that now harms many crustrations/shellfish etc.

Removing large volumes, simplicity itself with vacuum towers and compression to turn the extracted CO2 into easily separated dry ice. Further compressions turn it into a liquid able to be combined with liquid hydrogen to create all manner of carbon neutral hydrocarbons.

Not doable with costly battery or pumped hydro backed renewables! But doable with nuclear power. Particularly Molten salt thorium reactors, which can also burn nuclear waste very safely, nuclear waste we're paid annual millions to take.

Reducing the half-life from thousands of years to 3-400 in the burn and as a far less toxic material.

MSR thorium operates at ambient atmospheric pressure, does not require water and as a result, far less costly than uranium fuelled light water reactors and therefore, able to be placed well inland/almost anywhere.

Desal as described could be used on some saltwater aquifers that almost always produce large volumetric water flows.
Alan B.

Grazed goats reduce problematic fuel loads and are not constrained by the season, weather conditions and eat all manner of weeds. Can be used to protect bush dwellers by creating fire breaks.

Portable electric fences make sure they reduce the fuel load in the proscribed area. They are also a useful source of meat and or milk and or, fibre.

Moreover, less likely to destroy flora and fauna the way fires can and do! No native can outrun a wildfire and history abounds with examples of cool burns that got away and became raging wind pushed wildfires destroying all and sundry, homes and humans in their paths.

Local emergency crews need to be allowed to override the whims of the bureaudroids in Govt circles Fed, State & Local.
People who know rather than experts need to have the say. Also, people who insist in living in remote & difficult to access areas should not be able to claim being neglected as they knowingly neglect themselves from emergency services. At the same time, EPA should not be allowed to constrain people in areas that none in the EPA have any clue of.