Sea Change

Do you think that farmers from West Wimmera and the Southern Grampians believe in climate change? Despite being conservative National Party voters, I bet they do.

They aren’t asking for it yet, but they should ask for a large coastal desal plant run off PV and a water pipeline also running off PV. By the way, the pipeline will use much more power than the desal plant.

Interesting politics this. National food security isn’t that important any more so that can’t be used as an argument. We don’t even have a single oil refinery in Australia; our politicians have totally decoupled their actions from old-school national security policies.

So this will require a bit of pork-barreling, mixed with a little agribusiness shenanigans, some token Chinese investment, and all spiced up with some Mac bank brown paper bag for the pollies.