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Beware the ‘aspirational goal’

The Left’s ‘net-zero’ push is a dangerous farce

7 March 2020

9:00 AM

7 March 2020

9:00 AM

It is a law of political science that any organisation that must name itself after a virtue tends not to reflect that virtue. So, the German Democratic Republic (otherwise known as East Germany) was not democratic and the Australian Labor Party no longer represents labourers. Now we have the Business Council of Australia spending more time on the obsessions of the Greens than the interests of business by giving loud support for Australia to adopt a net-zero emissions target.

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