Brian Burston (NSW, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

I wish to speak in support of my colleague Senator Roberts in respect of the vital matter of public importance he has raised on climate change. The Greens Left has long argued that the spectre of catastrophic human-caused climate change requires a globalist, UN based response. They have said this for two reasons—firstly, because it is pitifully obvious that a country such as Australia, acting alone, could never do a thing to affect the climate in any measurable way. Even if we accept the hysterical global warming doomsdaying, we account for just 0.33 per cent of the world's population. Even if we were to shut down the whole country, with not so much as a wood fire to warm ourselves in our caves, the difference this would make to the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide would be entirely counteracted by the rest of the world's action in a matter of months. So, to avoid confronting that reality, the Greens tell us, we need to simply be obedient to the United Nations and cut our emissions, and then everyone else will do the same—as if China and India were ever going to let themselves be led around by the nose the way the Left say that we should let the UN lead us.

Secondly, the radical Greens have argued for global deals and global agreements in a way to reduce the power of individual countries and national institutions and to increase the power of global organisations such as the United Nations and the European Union. The green Left has long found it easier to make inroads among the global elite rather than by convincing the citizens of their own countries, so they have agitated for more and more power to be surrendered to the global organisations. And now with the election of the Trump administration the fantasy of global action has been punctured forever. There will be no global suicide in the name of climate change. The United States will not sacrifice its economic wellbeing. And with such a huge and pivotal country refusing to be part of any such collective— (Time expired)

Debate adjourned.