So WTF if 40% of all energy jobs are supplying less than 15% of electrical energy, & about 6% of all energy it is no wonder our electricity & fuel prices are skyrocketing. Is total inefficiency your green objective, or just an unanticipated result of crazy energy policy.

"so this bloke Alan Finkel concedes that Australia's contribution will have an impact on climate change"

Yes, an impact. So small that it's immeasurable. OTOH, the cost of achieving this small and immeasurable impact will be very measurable but will be borne by people who aren't you, so that's okey-dokey, I guess.

mhaze,

The cost of doing nothing is far greater, and the impact on human lives in Australia can be measured by the lives lost, and property damaged. Unlikely to have much of an impact on you personally, so that's okey-dokey, I guess.

Carbon dioxide emissions - harmless, natural, and vital to growing food - are not going away just because warped activists and liars want humans to reduce the mere 0.04% of the stuff that can be attributed to them just because that breath in and out, grow food, and manufacture essential goods.

China is the biggest emitter, and they are not going to bow down to the nonsense and let their 1.4 billion people go back to poverty and starvation.

So, little old Australia, with 25 million people and the ability to feed the world, is just virtue-signalling and pissing into the wind.

Even lefty ex-UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is telling the 60 or so million Brits that they are ruining their economy for no good reason, while China and the Third World (rightly) go about the everyday business of improving the lives of their people.

Economist, Alan Moran (Spectator 13/8/23), compared the onset of bankruptcy, which "comes slowly at first then rapidly", with the the myth of cheap wind and solar.

Other countries are waking up, but not Albostralia, where there are only a few "muted grumbles" about electricity prices from consumers, and the "green-hued" media has joined the lying political class in "attributing price rises to foreign causes".

So 40% of workers in the energy field are employed on renewables. Renewables (excluding pre-existing hydro) account for 15% of the energy produced in the USA, this is definitely the least productive portion of the energy sector.

Add in the reality of renewables' short life span and that 20 years from now most of the solar panels and wind turbines will need replacing and the question needs to be asked "why the hell aren't they going nuclear?"