• Emily (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    I’ve been really concerned about this. I know their real power is in the senate but the Greens have done well to pull things to the left in both houses.

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        2 months ago

        Their new leader needs to be able to solve environmental problems with holistic solutions.

        We need renewable energy, but in order to get there we need a Secondary and Tertiary manufacturing industry.

        Someone needs to (responsibly) build the consumer solar panels and batteries for us to install in our Garages and Roofs.

        Someone needs to build the equipment for the solar farms, solar ovens, wind farms and hydro batteries (responsibly).

        Meanwhile, it is not enough to just ban outdoor industry, the land maintenance that High Country Grazing, Logging and Mining were (or should have been doing) previously needs to continue being performed and funded by someone. Otherwise there will continue to be unfettered Bushfires and Poisoned mining ghost towns.

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        I’d go as far as saying it had next to nothing to do with the greens and it was all about the right.

        The shitshow that is the US has absolutely tanked the political right globally, and although we don’t have first past the post, there’s a lot of voter ignorance and people threw themselves behind labor when they might not have done so normally just to keep Dutton out of power.