Net Zero is the politics of poverty. This dim economic reality lurking beneath all the feel-good social media propaganda about saving a planet that doesn’t need rescuing is manifesting as a serious voter backlash poised to slap left-wing parties across the backside sooner rather than later.

As the loudest champions of ‘green at any cost’, the aptly named Greens are likely to be the first party to feel the sting of public outrage. This will trickle through to the ‘wind turbines and solar panels are our God’ Teals until the mess finishes up in Labor’s lap, where it belongs. They were the chief architects of climate politics when, decades ago, it was all too easy to nominate a distant apocalypse and use its scary vista as an election boost.

‘Give us money and we’ll save the world!’

The masses lined up, wallets open and eyes closed. Everyone loves a saviour, but politicians are not deities with magical powers. Your tax dollars have about as much chance of changing the weather as New Zealand does keeping its volcanoes quiet by giving them gender-neutral pronouns.

The cost of living crisis is walking away from the Net Zero wreckage with a sober view. The existential fear in the public mind no longer relates to the stubbornly stable sea levels, or the faux colour weather maps dipped in red and orange. Too many people remember this as ‘summer’, not a disaster. When Rowan Dean’s Ice Age Watch offers a better quality weather report than the ABC, you know ‘climate change’ has run its course.

Western economies are in a mess because their leaders evoked a ‘war economy’ to handle a crisis that didn’t exist. The initial panic rustled the public purse. It was enough to force people to politely comply with restrictions on freedom while watching, without complaint, the sabotage of public assets. Yet this same citizen body has very little patience for charlatans that use perfect beach weather as an excuse to swindle hundreds of billions in public money.

How many fractions of a degree have Australian taxpayers bought themselves? Is it ‘zero’?

It’s no wonder a backlash has begun. We saw flickers of it arise during Queensland’s recent Fadden by-election in mid-July where the Liberals increased their hold amid sulking Newspolls for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The Greens sank by 4.5 per cent – which is quite extraordinary during a ‘climate change frenzy’.

Situated on the Gold Coast, Fadden would surely notice a catastrophic sea level rise. No doubt residents are watching the tide line hold steady, as it has always done.

The Coalition needed the Fadden win to stem the blood loss from repeated electoral losses up and down the country – although it would be generous to give them credit for the victory. Labor and the Greens are creating an expensive, untenable existence for Australians and as the cost of living crisis escalates the vote will flow away from left-leaning parties.

It’s a shame to see it pour into the pockets of the Liberals, who have spent the last two decades quietly cheering on the same Net Zero policies as Labor and the Greens. They had their chance to protect the Australian public from ruinous and greedy, green-tinted international socialism and instead they leaned heavily into the global prestige of being another ‘yes man’ in the UN crowd.

One Nation has stood against this eco-fascist nonsense from the beginning. We recognised immediately that global corporations and busy-body bureaucracies are misusing scary end-times propaganda for the purpose of acquiring power and gaining riches. Picking carbon dioxide – the foundation of life – as a poison worth controlling and eradicating was always suspect. Frightened citizens in the West, who took the claims of authoritative bureaucracies at face value, are starting to understand that they were duped.

No doubt the Coalition will try to bury their former life as chief propagandists for Net Zero. History will revisit the wets of the party – the Sharmas, Turnbulls, Wilsons, Zimmermans, Keans, and anyone else who empowered the Teals’ apocalyptic message – as either naive or fools. The virtue that green ideology once held is festering into a curse revealing that the darlings of the broad church were always an embarrassment to common sense and economic stability. A moderate Liberal is nothing more than another shade of Teal.

The minor win of a single seat in a by-election result consistent with trends against state and federal governments has reinvigorated Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, yet one wonders if he can see the larger picture.

Australia sits on a turn-tide. The relentless rips of Net Zero and panicky environmentalism have stilled. A grim surge of economic terror waits offshore. This time, it’s a real problem – not some fantastical delusion of a zealous school-skipping teenager. Australians can feel the change in the air and while they punished the Greens at Fadden, they’ll soon unleash hell upon Albanese’s delusional climate posturing.

Young families want to know why renewable energy companies are being given billions of dollars of support in grants while their power bills double. What happened to cheap energy?

Green energy is not cheap energy, and Australians have the power bills to prove it.

So-called green energy is a parasitic malinvestment with each claimed green-job costing at least 2.3 real jobs in the productive economy.

Voters from all walks of life are abandoning ‘green’. Traditionally environmentally-minded surfers never signed up for lines of wind turbines trashing thousands of kilometres of pristine beaches with each turbine anchored to the seafloor where their steel and concrete bodies destroy wave creation. Even the most devout among them find it difficult to look at these aquatic monstrosities with anything other than disgust.

While wind firms and desperate governments keep insisting there’s ‘no evidence’ offshore wind farms are killing whales – whale corpses are piling up. Correlation does not equal causation, yet repeated ‘co-incidence’ makes a strong case for some sort of connection either in construction or operation. Internationally, ocean groups holding ‘Whale Lives Matter’ signs are raising their voices against offshore wind – particularly in America which has seen an increase in beached whales in areas surrounding wind farm activity.

Meanwhile, Tasmania requires wind farms to shut down for five months in the year to protect the migration of parrots. It is an admission that wind turbines present a clear physical threat to migratory birds who get caught in the blades and killed. The irony of ‘environmentally friendly’ energy generation butchering wildlife is as depressing as it is typical of this current era. If coal-fired plants had a habit of slicing-and-dicing nearby wildlife, they’d be banned outright, yet ‘green’ energy is given a free pass on even the most horrific destruction.

If we delivered the broken, bloodied bodies of our birds to Adam Bandt, Chris Bowen, and Anthony Albanese’s offices, would they start caring, or is the machine of renewable energy worth too much to their mates in Beijing? Corporations fattening themselves solar and wind subsidies are unlikely to give up this position of privilege without a fight.

Australia has all the natural gifts to be a standalone energy superpower. Our energy problems are political mistakes driven by greed. That’s all green energy is – public exploitation and the belief that the green money tree will keep refreshing like the Tim Tam genie.

Public money is not infinite and public patience has run dry.

The Netherlands pushed the green delusion harder and faster than Australia, and their catastrophic collision with reality should serve as a lesson to Australia. Their government collapsed in July after farmer movements holding pitchforks destabilised the tyranny of Net Zero policy. Farmers are not giving up their land and livelihoods without a fight. Like the revolutions of old, the public can feel the grip of elitism.

In Europe, the great green backlash has begun. Australia has been put on notice as farmers, rural and regional villagers, and lovers of rainforests come out in force to protect vital natural and human habitats. These vigilantes stand against bulldozers levelling trees and despoiling homes for the scattered blights of wind turbines, vast carpets of solar panels, and dispersed swathes of transmission lines.

Those who continue to attach themselves to this failed policy will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

Australians want a secure economic future. They want a prosperous, energy-rich nation. It’s what the blessing of their birth in this wonderful country promised. It is what we are entitled to.

Once we scrape the gangrenous veneer off our political system, Australia will finally be free.

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Malcolm Roberts is a One Nation Senator for Queensland.

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