Schoolgirl Thunberg has jumped on the Australian bushfires as she heads for home and oblivion, continuing to mewl about the need for "more action".

Just what form does this action take? What can be done that hasn't already been done: bring the entire country to a halt while the big emitters like China and India increase their emissions? Get rid of coal-powered electricity when renewables produce only about 14% of our energy - when they are working? Stop our PM from going on holiday until he stops bushfires?

Unless I missed it, this child and her acolytes - kiddies and adults - have not come up with 'more action' that is practical. Is that because there is nothing that can be done? There is no 'more action' available?

It's normal for children to kick over the traces. But it isn't normal for adults to take advice from children who have very little experience of life and who take the benefits they have for granted.

Scott Morrison, for all his faults - and daring to take a break - has made it clear that he will not beggar Australia's economic future with childish ratbaggery. To date, he has been the closest thing to a real adult in the room, despite his refusal to knock the whole silly business in the head a la Donald Trump.

In today's news, Scott Morrison responding to childish demands and urgings:

"Mr Morrison said he was squarely focused on Australia, rather than "trying to impress people overseas".

Greta Thunberg is simply the latest commodity for the hysteria media. Standard opportunistic exploitation by the integrity-devoid !

Greta Thunberg is the future;
(Whether we like it or not)

Struth, ttbn, if you really can't think of any more that can be done, I suggest you ask the kids - you'd probably learn a lot from them

But on the off chance that either they don't know or you're too lazy to ask them, I'll alert you to a few very obvious things that you really should have been able to work out yourself:

>Just what form does this action take? What can be done that hasn't already been done:
An enormous amount considering how little we've done so far.

>bring the entire country to a halt while the big emitters like China and India increase their emissions?
Getting international agreement to cut emissions is extremely important. But Australia's intransigence prevented any progress being made in the Madrid talks. Angus Taylor's insistence on carrying over our surplus from our soft Kyoto target in order to meet our Paris target meant that other countries were unwilling to commit to meaningful emissions reductions. Since then, he's hinted that we may meet our Paris target without relying on our Kyoto surplus. But meanwhile he's already set negotiations back a year.

>Get rid of coal-powered electricity when renewables produce only about 14% of our energy - when they are working?
When our use of renewables is that low, how can you still fail to comprehend that we must hugely increase it?

Greta Thunberg is the future;
Armchair Critic,
She's part of it !