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Net-zero carbon dioxide gas emissions targets are just another example of ‘glorious five-year plans’ with monstrous results for all and sundry.

The malevolent dictator loves grand sweeping visions, particularly those that diminish their enemies and transfer their wealth to their friends and cronies.

So it is with mandated and equally malevolent diktats aimed at reducing carbon dioxide gas emissions.

China’s great Chairman, Mao Zedong would recognise the language and mission at once.

And so would Australia’s so-called Energy Minister, Chris Bowen, as The Australian’s Nick Cater details below.

Great Leaps never land well, Mr Bowen
The Australian
Nick Cater
12 June 2023

Mao Zedong’s fixation with backyard furnaces was one of the principal causes of the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-61. The diversion of labour to manufacture unusable steel in tens of millions of small, inefficient furnaces remains an object lesson in the folly of ideological central planning.

Mao’s pronouncement…