Realpolitik. Josh and his tutor.

Josh Frydenberg knows that Coal is ‘Good for Humanity’ also.

At last some good news from the Federal Liberal National Coalition. Just when we thought that Tony Abbott was done and dusted we’ve got Josh Frydenberg, telling us all that we’re glad opening up the Adani mine, because it’s a moral obligation to help poor bastards out in India by giving them the gift of eighteenth century technology. It’s a national imperative to help those without energy. Though the World Health Organisation cites coal, cow dung and charcoal as chief killers in the third world, coal according to Josh aint really that bad. And he also knows that ‘the human cost of not having energy is something that the environmentalists just don’t get’.

In his own words;

Mates Rates!! Maintaining the status quo.

‘Environmentalists just don’t grasp the moral virtue of coal exports’

Hang on Josh. At much cheaper cost we could equip all of the benighted villagers, (that’s code for non urban Indian peasants) with renewables at a quarter of the cost. But that would deny his mate, and his other mates in the Minerals and Energy Council a big windfall profit.

This way, the big end of town get a fat whacking profit, the obscenity of Mr Adani’s wealth just grows bigger, and whether you like it or not, though the poor and unwashed in India may appear to be gaining the wonder of energy to buy micro waves and watch reality television, they’ll get no benefit in the end. That’s because as you well know, there is very little wealth distribution ever for those on the lower rungs in Indian society. It is disingenuous to pretend to be helping the ” unwashed”. The fact that they are the poor and unwashed is an irrefutable part of being Indian. It’s the caste system you see. But it does point to the future for all of us, where elections are a charade of sorts to give the illusion of power sharing. Soon we’ll all be economic “untouchables”.

So it’s all very well for Mr Frydenberg, to talk about coal, and the uranium lobby does the same, but he ignores that it roots the planet and fucks up our children’s future for the sake of lining a few already well lined pockets.

But in a way, and please forgive my sermonising, this is the ‘first best instance’ of Josh, and his mates letting the electorate know that with the change of P.M, it’s business as usual. And business as usual is a two way street. We root Australia fuck up the Great Barrier Reef and fuck up India at the same time. And the best thing about it is that we demonstrate to the world at large that we are still amongst the most bloody minded, self serving insular and morally impoverished nations on earth.

And that Joshy old boy is something to be really proud of. Jeez, those coal lobbyists must have been shaking about what an ‘enthusiastic’ Turnbull government could have done to embedded, cosy mateship arrangements. But you’ve proven once and for all, that there’s still a long way to go before you and your mates will even consider anything other than the short term. As you well know; you make decisions for the 1 per cent. And like the old Benson and Hedges advert; ‘isn’t that all the time’.