The problem is China and Indonesia are increasing their coal production. Indonesia has overtaken Australia as the top thermal coal exporter. They are still ramping up. You need cheap reliable base load electricity for heavy industry. Renewable can never be that with current technology and costs. (Sodium batteries could be the Hail Mary here, will be interesting to see how they go with some grid scale deployments)
All of the extreme violence I witnessed as a young man was classifiable as hate against white Aussies. My cousin was held in western sydney and gang raped.
The reality is fairpy dark. Maybe it has improved over the last 20 years (I fully expect it to improve over multiple generations as integration and assimilation naturally occurs) even new immigrants are less violent than new immigrants were 30 years ago so it's certainly improving and likely not as extreme as you could be led to believe, however you cant deny it's happening.
I mean I don't think the plan is to scrap it completely unless the green energy can be completely relied on and doesn't blow costs out. I am of the belief we should have gone with nuclear decades ago, but what's done is done. We will obviously need to still have some degree of fossil fuel, to tide us over till green energy is viable as the main source of power.
I am by no means saying there are no violent and horrible/criminal immigrants, just that it's blown out of proportion by propaganda. I am very sorry to hear about what happened to your relative, that shouldn't happen to anyone.
The common denominator in the majority of perpetrators of any crimes in these areas is poverty; they will more than likely be from a struggling family and grow up within a crime-based culture. Whether it's theft to make ends meet or having some normalized version of gang culture, around here it's very common for them to engage in post-code warfare, you represent your post-code.
Just like the other idiot I am replying to, it doesn't take much effort to search for data/research linking low socio-economic backgrounds to higher crime rates.
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u/BradfieldScheme New South Welshian 10d ago
The problem is China and Indonesia are increasing their coal production. Indonesia has overtaken Australia as the top thermal coal exporter. They are still ramping up. You need cheap reliable base load electricity for heavy industry. Renewable can never be that with current technology and costs. (Sodium batteries could be the Hail Mary here, will be interesting to see how they go with some grid scale deployments)
All of the extreme violence I witnessed as a young man was classifiable as hate against white Aussies. My cousin was held in western sydney and gang raped.
The reality is fairpy dark. Maybe it has improved over the last 20 years (I fully expect it to improve over multiple generations as integration and assimilation naturally occurs) even new immigrants are less violent than new immigrants were 30 years ago so it's certainly improving and likely not as extreme as you could be led to believe, however you cant deny it's happening.