Climate Change Fantasies and the Real Threat of Communist China, By James Reed

 Australian philosopher James Beattie has made a critique of Australia's commitment to the AUKUS agreement, from the perspective of climate change alarmism. Thus:

"A decisive problem with AUKUS is that it looks set to play no role in addressing any of the credible threats currently facing Australia – military or otherwise. Not only is it quite ill-suited to meet the reasonable and fairly minimal expectations we might have of defence spending – protecting Australia from imminent or probable future attack – but it also has no bearing whatsoever on defending us from the host of looming and highly predictable threats arising from global overheating.

And this is to assume that AUKUS actually unfolds according to plan – an unwarranted assumption, according to many seasoned strategic and security experts. Moreover, even if everything falls perfectly into place, these vessels might not even be able to operate effectively in an ocean that has already been irrevocably altered by acidification and climate change."

So, the submarines will be damaged by oceans that have been acidified by carbon dioxide? Unbelievable. If that level was possible, which it is not with carbon dioxide in water, there would be the end of ocean life, but I suppose that is the climate change alarmist position. But, beyond that, nuclear subs are apparently not going to address military threats to Australia. No mention of the Chinese navy, which is playing war games with Taiwan!

Indeed, unless I am mistaken, the threat of communist China is not mentioned in the article at all. I suppose Taiwan is just mistaken. And the Japanese, and the rest of Southeast Asia. It would be nice to see these kind folks from the Left address the carbon emissions and rapid building of coal-fired power stations in China as well.

https://johnmenadue.com/war-in-a-hot-climate-the-luxury-of-aukus-in-a-time-of-global-overheating/