he probably cant remember (ba dum chhhh)

I never gave it the first thought, honestly. I know they're not swimming in success at the moment.

Hahahaha low hanging fruit joke

nope. but that has been declining for a LONG time

i dont want to think about any of their low hanging fruit, eeewww

Fruit is good, except citrus. Too bitey.

Incentivise the diversification of export crops and reach trade agreements with friendly countries?

does your environmental opinion include factory farming?

No, we are on an alienation of friendly countries path. They'll probably stick with that.

My moral opinions include factory farming.

Hey. You're in our quad. You'd better be friendly with us pr China gonna eat us up

i can work with that

Also we build your warships.

i dont like ff (and im going with that because im lazy and dont want to type it out every time)

but, i think it is a necessary evil that could be better regulated

If we keep forsaking our friends, China is going to eat everyone up, by their own request.

Well US is closer to Taiwan, India, Japan and Aus than ever.

...just like oil is a necessary evil which gets morphed into carte blanche.

agreed

You totally abandoned the Kurds, not cool. But the rest of the world probably has better trade relations with US than before.

we ship live(d) animals overseas to have them slaughter and package them to send back to us. thats a problem.

The rest of The world doesn't need much excuse to abandon us in favor of China. They don't like instability...or derision for that matter.

an analogy that was given to me about our trade agreements was like having a shithead spoiled kid that was used to getting their way. you get fed up, take their phone away, and tell them that they cant have it back until their room is clean. they will sulk and raise hell, but bet that room gets cleaned up...

Exactly. Just like the carbon tax in koalaland. Worked out great in the end.

Except the spoiled kid has nukes

meh.

> Exactly. Just like the carbon tax in koalaland. Worked out great in the end.
@Zuluzeit
Except it was repealed 6 years ago lol

That is exactly my point, Georgia. The businesses all claimed they'd go under as a scare tactic but ended up modernizing and making themselves more efficient. No more need for carbon tax. It accomplished its mission.

And gave my state the highest energy prices in the world. Literally

Um

Not sure that's the best description of the state of our businesses but ok!

Emissions were severely curtailed. They would still be using 1950's standards, if they had no financial motive to change.

https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/carbon-tax-australia/

That's the scare tactic. Like they will just pack up and stop wanting to be successful unless they get completely free reign. It's a scam.

I'd seen the data years ago. It worked.

Yes, it costs money to not pour your waste into the environment. It's a necessary public burden. We don't have anywhere else to go.

call elon lol

Hey, it's an interesting idea. I can't say one way or the other as I haven't researched it extensively. But the state of power in Aus is pretty bad.

(that was a bad joke)

There is a lpf of idiocy and corruption all over the place though.

Energy industries are always jerking our leash. That's another tactic. Completely artificial.