While Australia’s commentariat are playing gotcha with the Liberals over how the party’s nuclear commitment fits into the Paris Climate Accord, Peter Dutton, at least, seems to be planning for a 2025 election where a reelected President Donald Trump has torn up global climate politics.
Dutton hasn’t been caught. He’s playing a longer game and is exactly where he wants to be. His political attack on climate action is part of a long-term global assault by the fossil-fueled right. Right now, he’d be thinking he’s backing a winner and can rely on a feckless media perennially distracted by the latest Canberra stunt to miss what’s happening.
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