There is something remarkably juvenile about prime ministers, presidents, and media establishments gloating that the G20 Leaders’ Summit has ‘defied Trump’ with a climate declaration.

Anthony Albanese is among those world leaders congratulating themselves in Johannesburg for pledging to spend trillions on climate change goals.

Someone needs to explain to the Prime Minister (or perhaps cc-it to Chris Bowen) that cheap power should not cost so much damn money.

Remember a time, not so long ago, when politicians beat their fists at the internet and said the ‘trillion dollar’ green transition price tag was ‘fake news’?

Well, a few months later and that fake news has become the trending G20 hashtag.

$1.6 trillion a year for Australia to meet its Net Zero target is ‘nothing’ insisted one thinktank. It’s only $64 billion extra than what we already spend!

Nothing!!! Yeah, tell that to over-taxed, over-worked, Australians. See how they vote.

Keep in mind, this is the same thinktank that insisted Australians were not prepared to pay any extra for nuclear power, despite it being the cleanest, most Net Zero-y energy available (outside of hydro). (And a darn-sight cheaper than renewables.)

Which is it, thinktanks?

Always keen to spend public money, our Prime Minister said of the G20 pledge:

‘It’s a very positive sign that the world wants to get on with cooperating and it’s a very positive statement going forward.’

They are the words of a man holding open the door of Australia’s treasury while every third-world nation signed up to the UN rushes in to fill their pockets.

‘It’s about what the world has committed to: the Paris Agreement and to action on climate change. There is overwhelming support for action on climate change.’

Support? Yes. Action? Not so much. China certainly has no intention of endangering its economy and military power by crippling its energy grid. No, Xi Jinping will keep buying cheap Australian coal and shipping us back short-lived, (asbestos-filled?) products.

Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen obviously didn’t get the memo from China, because he was busy making another meaningless pledge at the Brazil COP conference.

‘We support the call to advance a road map for the transition away from fossil fuels to scale-up collective action and implementation. Fossil fuels are the main drivers of global greenhouse gas emissions and that the projected CO2 emissions from continued fossil fuel production, licensing, and subsidies are incompatible with limiting the temperature rise to 1.5.’

Does anyone believe Bowen is going to stop the exportation of coal, oil, and gas?

Of course he isn’t.

How is China meant to run all its factories without our fossil fuels? How will all these mines operate to extract the rare earths needed for renewable technology without fossil fuels keeping the engines running?

If these ministers ever delivered on their promises, the human race would go extinct overnight.

Even Albanese seems to know the COP pledge is worthless, as he told reporters there was no plan to change policy. It was just more waffle from BlueSky Bowen.

For those wondering why I haven’t copied the Leaders’ statement for you, it is 30 pages long.

It could best be described as a Green Communist Manifesto ghost-written by faceless men and delivered to a group of leaders too dim-witted to re-create any Great Leaps. Thank goodness.

I lost the will to live about two paragraphs in with statements such as:

‘In the spirit of Ubuntu, we recognise that individual nations cannot thrive in isolation. The African philosophy of Ubuntu, often translated as, I am because we are, emphasises the interconnectedness of individuals within a broader communal, social, economic, and environmental context. We understand our interconnectedness as a global community of nations and reaffirm our commitment to ensure that no one is left behind through multilateral cooperation, macro policy coordination, global partnerships for sustainable development and solidarity.’

Remember, this is from the same South Africa which boasts an openly racist land appropriation policy. Legalising revenge-based race as a legal tool for the state to appropriate huge tracts of land and rent them to another race who can’t service the debt is evil. Not a lot of ‘solidarity’ there, eh? If the host nation is in violation of the declaration, why did Australia sign it? For the headlines?

Circling the Paris Agreement framework (which is not dead as a few Liberal Party apologists have tried to claim as an excuse for Sussan Ley’s decision to keep it) has left Australia vulnerable to excessive monetary burdens.

If you scrape off all the meaningless bureau-speak, it essentially says: Because of eco-communism, and our racist approach toward colonial Western nations, we want you to give us loads and loads of money under the banner of climate change. No. We won’t be improving our human rights record. lol

Mobilise finance for just energy transitions.

That is not a typo. These documents are adding the word ‘just’ into all sorts of awkward places to force a marriage between economics and social politics.

‘Just’ is the hinge of guilt from which Western money is appropriated.

If you take it out of the framework, they would have to base an argument on merit and data, which they cannot.

What, exactly, is Anthony Albanese signing us up to?

Well, certainly not a simple little climate declaration. The detail includes global tax initiatives, debt-financing, banking regulations, changes to World Trading Organisation rules, investment, at critical items on various UN agendas.

It is a document that would never pass through Parliament and yet it is signed without public consent.

I am convinced the media is passing it off as a slight to Trump on purpose to stop people looking any closer.

There are countless expensive, revolutionary statements. Does Albanese agree with them all? Or is it a bit like the Voice to Parliament where Labor only read the first page before giving it a thumbs up for the camera?

You know who else refused to sign the G20 pledge? Argentina… President Javier Milei citied it as being ‘deeply Woke’.

When world leaders say the Net Zero transition will cost trillions, they never mean of their own money. It is always of your money. Either your income is being taxed, your business, your retirement, or even your death. That money has to come from somewhere, and it won’t be the third-world or Global South.

What better location for virtue-hungry and vain world leaders to gather and cackle over absconding with public money than a nation under scrutiny for its racial persecution of white farmers?

‘Defying Trump’ is not only about the US’s decision to pull the bulk of US taxpayer money out of the climate cult, it was an f- you to the President for boycotting the G20.

The absurdity of the G20 and the childish behaviour of our Prime Minister says pretty much everything you need to know about what the next few years will look like under Labor.