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Steven Miles knows climate change is coming for Queensland · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi, I'm Jake Fallon. Thank you for listening to the
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  slippery slope. Look, I wasn't going to do
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  another episode this year. It's going to break in between
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  Christmas and New Year's, obviously.
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  However, I'd seen this article. Few things coming out thought,
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  wow, we have to do at least bring your attention to what's
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  what's happening now. I'm not a prophet, I'm not the
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  son of a prophet. But I think 2024 is shaping up
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  to be a year of natural disasters.
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  That's just my opinion. And I think we have had the
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  premiere for Queensland. We have been given.
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  He's been placed, put it that way, placed into office because
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  other people can see that these things are going to happen.
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  And he is the climate change activists of that, that other
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  people have decided we needed this headline here that I'm
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  going to read to you. The story says my job to
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  convince them. Stephen Miles knows climate
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  change is coming for Queensland now.
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  We've already had this cyclone Jasper just in the last week
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  caused absolute havoc through far North Queensland.
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  The flooding in that from Cairns and upwards has just been
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  phenomenal, the amount of rain that's come through.
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  So and obviously Stephen Miles was already very deep into the
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  climate change ideology, a a follower, a follower of the Al
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  Gore, the one and only Al Gore. Climate change has been his
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  thing. And as soon as I saw him come in
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  and he made a few announcements at the very start I thought this
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  fella is going to be some trouble.
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  And I reckon he might be placed there by the powers that be that
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  wants someone like him like he's from his ilk in government of
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  this running the government of our state.
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  So I'll read through a bit of the stories, bring it up so you
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  can follow along, and I'll tell you what, it's very concerning
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  and I think it just reads out of the OR the playbook of the WEF,
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  To be honest. Miles had already set out to
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  make climate change one of the themes of his first week in
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  office. Remember, he's only been in for
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  what, two weeks now? Even before X tropical cyclone
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  Jasper flooded the state's north to Friday's running, The student
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  of Al Gore has rolled out major green announcements, doubling
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  the state's emissions reduction target to 75% by 2035 in his
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  first announcement as premier in banning banning new gas
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  developments from the state's far western river systems.
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  And election promised dating to 2015.
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  Banning. We've already got energy issues
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  and these people want to make it harder for us, harder for
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  cooking, harder for heating. Ha crocky.
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  Miles is eager to build a consensus around the economics
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  of the transition. A link between city and Bush,
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  right and left. The stakes are high for the
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  transition in Queensland which has among the world's most
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  carbon dependent economies, according to Gavin Mcfadzin.
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  Now remember carbon. That's the big baddie In all
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  this situation. Carbon's going to kill us all,
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  apparently, if you believe the ideology.
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  So he's a Gavin Mcfadson, a program manager at the at the
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  Conservation Council. The coal industry was worth more
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  than 15 billion to the state budget last financial year,
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  partly as a result of royalties. Royalties hikes legislated under
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  the former premier, Anastasia Palache.
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  QLD also has the nation's second highest proportion of residents
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  living in regional areas, behind Tasmania.
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  Federal Labor holds no seats outside SE Queensland state
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  Labor repeatedly won elections by appealing to the regions,
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  including mining communities like Gladstone.
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  Miles hopes he has found the answer.
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  It's my job to convince people that addressing climate change
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  isn't a threat to jobs. It's actually a way to protect
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  jobs, he says. If you look at the high emitting
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  industries in places like Glasson and Townsville, they're
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  going to lose their global customers if they continue to be
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  reliant on such high levels of fossil fuel energy.
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  The problem is they're not going to lose their global customers
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  because the global customers, especially for the coal
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  industry, is China. They're not changing.
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  They don't give a sorry, they don't give a damn about climate
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  change. Supposedly climate change
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  because they know it's not real. But the Chinese Communist Party
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  are not going to stop buying coal in India.
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  These two countries, major, major, major countries, are not
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  going to stop their demand for coal.
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  The only way that's going to happen is if government starts
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  to interfere. People like Steven Miles out
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  there championing the ideology for climate change.
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  Look, let's continue on with what else he's saying.
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  I think this is the whole reason why he's been placed into
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  office. I think he's been placed in.
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  So the best way we can protect those jobs is by providing them
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  with renewable energy so that they can sell their products
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  into markets that increasingly want green aluminium, green
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  steel, green products. And similarly, if we get it
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  right, we can also attract new industries.
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  In the past that we're attracted, they were attracted
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  to our cheap plentiful coal, sorry plentiful fossil fuel
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  based energy. In the future we will have
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  cheap, plentiful firmed renewable energy with an
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  election less than a year away. The minerals industry, which is
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  already running ads complaining of coal royalty increases, was
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  further angered by the weeks by this announcement that they made
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  about that he's already made when he came into office.
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  A spokesman for Santos says the company has operated sustainably
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  and safely in the rivers and flood plains of the basins for
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  around 55 years. This decision was made with
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  little regard to science and evidence or the contribution of
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  the gas industry in southwest Queensland to regional jobs.
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  But this is the problem with the climate activists.
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  They don't care about actual science or actual evidence.
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  It's all alarmist. It's all selling their ideology
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  because they're going to be able to use that ideology, that fear
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  mongering, to control the masses.
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  If you don't change, if you don't do what they want, you're
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  going to die. You must cut your carbon.
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  You must stop driving around your diesel trucks.
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  You must buy an electric vehicle because then they can control
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  when and where you can charge your vehicle and how often you
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  can drive it. And and they can also stop the
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  car if they feel the need. If you don't believe me I've
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  already done a couple of podcasts about what's happening
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  in in the UK this is the exact legislation they brought brought
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  in in London. They want they they can control
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  when you can charge your vehicle and they can actually switch off
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  the charging if they deem it necessary.
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  The government this is, this is coming everywhere and here we
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  just see it coming to Australia, to Queensland.
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  So anyway, the Queensland Resources Council describes the
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  decision as short sighted. McFadden believes the industry
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  has even more to lose from the new emissions reduction targets.
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  It sounds the death, death knell for domestic energy from coal
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  and gas, domestic energy. This is the problem, isn't it?
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  We already have. We already have energy issues.
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  We're in a nation that should not have any kind of energy
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  issues. We're having energy issues.
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  That's crazy. And they want us.
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  They want us to buy electric vehicles, but they want to cut
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  back the products we use to create electricity and new
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  houses that they want us to stop using gas for our cooking
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  facilities. When they're building new
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  houses, it's all going to run electricity because they can
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  control you. They can control the electricity
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  grid. If they control the electricity
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  grid, they can control you. This is what it's all about.
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  But Mars is adamant he hasn't promised an imminent switch away
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  from fossil fuels. The Cat Eye, Thunder Lake Air
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  and New gas band was about protecting one particular area
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  rather than setting a cap on gas, he says.
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  For fossil fuel generation, we have a plan for an orderly
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  transition of our workforces into clean energy jobs.
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  They've decided this is what they've decided and you have to
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  do it for extraction. There will continue to be a
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  demand, particularly for cooking coal and gas going forward.
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  That's most of our resources. Industry Miles has about 300
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  days before the next election to convince Queenslanders he is
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  right about the path to transition.
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  While historically, while historically, debate in
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  Queensland is focused on the risks of moving too fast, this
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  week may have provided A timely reminder of the danger of moving
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  too slowly. Because Miles says it's hard to
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  blame a single event on climate change.
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  A single event because none of it is actually climate change.
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  You know the reason why? That the reason why the verse
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  was written. You know, I love a sunburned
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  country, and it talks about a land of floods with fires, of
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  extreme heats and cold, because that's the way this nation's
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  always been. It's just called weather.
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  Anyway, keep going. So he says this.
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  It's hard to blame a single event on climate change because
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  climate change, it's an ideology, it's a religion.
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  It's not. Anyway, I'll leave it that kind
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  of causation to the scientists but the but the increased heat
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  in the Earth's atmosphere poses salient risks for QLD.
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  There is no doubt that Queensland has always been the
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  most disaster prone place in the country, one of the most
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  disaster prone first world places in the world, Miles says.
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  And that's going to get worse I believe.
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  Like I said, I believe Miles has been placed in here to really
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  ramp up the fear in Queenslanders.
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  Just another leader placed by the likes of Klaus Al Gore to
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  ramp up the fear for Queenslanders and to force us
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  into into a place where you have to go along with the climate
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  change ideology or you get left behind.
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  And even though you can see it's not good for the country, it's
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  not good for individuals and it's making us, it'll make us
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  poorer, it'll put us behind other nations that will still
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  force us to do it. And I think we're going to see
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  more and more bad, extreme weather in 2024 and it's going
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  to continually be continually be blamed on climate change.
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  And Miles is just going to force us down this road, whether we
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  like it or not. Yet we have an election in about
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  300 days or so. So you know what we need to do.
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  Labour needs to go Miles is a plan for the WEF.
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  Is he? Maybe.
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  I don't know. Seems very strange.
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  Anyway, all I can say is the Bible already tells me how the
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  world's going to end, and it's not going to be because of
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  climate change. I'll tell you that much.
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  That's just my opinion. Thank you for listening to the
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  slippery slope, ladies.