AC,

OK. I know what you mean.

You mention 'leaders'. Well, that is something we simply do not have anymore. The idiot in Washington is what we have instead these days. Before Joe Biden stumbled into the White House, the events unravelling in Ukraine would not have been possible.

Western 'leaders' are focused on "juvenile, trite and idiotic concepts such as ‘diversity and inclusion’, ‘gender fluidity’, critical race theory and climate change".

Climate change for one is a child’s obsession. But in this dangerous world, we need adult, manly leadership. Nations can't be protected with net zero emissions, de-growthing, and fantasies about green hydrogen.

Armchair & ttbn;
Sorry to say but it is set in concrete due to the brainwashing by teachers.
Each year another tranche of 18 year old will be added to the voting lists.
The young activists are in that mode, you know where they say
"employ them while they know everything".
Most have not accepted that whatever solar & wind are installed you
have to duplicate them 6 to 12 times to get 100% reliability.
The grid will have to cover the whole of Australia to have buckleys.
But can it be afforded ?

The mood will not change until we have blackouts and they find that
doubling the number of wind turbines makes almost no difference.
The silly part of all this is that the temp rise has almost nothing
to do with CO2. In a 100 years time as the cooling sets in someone
will say, "Oh the CO2 is causing cooling !"

The West’s weakening is self-imposed, stemming from its policies of pursuing the illusion of low-cost reliable wind and solar energy. Not only has this made consumers hostage to loss of gas and electricity, it has destroyed the profitability of much of the energy-intensive industry which is the backbone of prosperity. Nations rejecting these policies have shifted towards dominance: Russia with energy, China and increasingly India with manufacturing.

German politicians and those of nations like Japan are pragmatically shifting tack and re-embracing fossil fuels and nuclear power. Unfortunately, at present Australia has just a handful of politicians in the minor parties and the Nationals that are seeking such a change of course.

whopper wind fall tax on petrol.
Paul1405,
Most of that is needed to pay Labor supporting bureaucrats who sabotage every effort to make things run smooth !

Armchair Critic said "Democracy is just a pretend thing.
The worlds been conquered, sovereign countries conquered by democracy without even realising that they have.
The world has now exists as being completely fake and manufactured.
Everything is propaganda.

Total Spectral Dominance by the globalists."

Answer- Well put Armchair Critic. Kudos.