Just keep digging...

Thank goodness that Australia is still baulking at the obvious and digging up our coal and iron ore at a faster and faster rate! It really is such a relief to know that our wide brown land is being scraped and picked at and sold off to the highest bidder, and that it seems those highest bidders are China and India. Phew! Now I can sleep at night, restful and at peace in the knowledge that our future is certain, spaceship earth is in good hands, and my grandchildren won’t dance on my grave singing “You bloody idiot, your generation were a pack of complete wankers!”.

It doesn’t matter pound of carbon that the coal and iron ore will eventually run out. Nor does it matter a pinch of topsoil that there will be a moment when it looks like things are going horribly wrong. It is all good news, and all part of an obvious plan on the part of our mining industry to ensure our future survival. Thank you big mining companies, keep digging and digging (some would say raping and pillaging, but shame on them!) and supplying the entropic finite goodies to those big hungry economies so they can keep developing and developing and developing. Let’s face it, as these big multinational do gooders obviously know, without us selling China and India billions of tonnes of Australia we would all be in very big trouble.

And once the goodies run out, and there is nothing left, and the wonderfully forward thinking magnates have done their job, we can only hope that the hole that is left in the middle of our insignificant pile of dirt is so deep that it actually reaches all the way to China, just like in the old jokes. Then we can poke our heads out of the sand, and buy back some of our boring old iron ore in new and improved sustainable products! Photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, electric cars with really fast charge batteries, even intellectual know how on how to run a sustainable and renewable economy that would not have been possible to develop if not for the generosity of the folks turning the top gears of our incredible two speed economy.

In the interim, before we deliver the punch line to the big global joke we are playing on these developing nations (wink, wink) we don’t even need to bother with investing in all that renewable energy sustainable economy green forward thinking rubbish. Boring in the extreme, and complicated, too, apparently - not that we need to concern ourselves with such rot. They will do all the hard yards, and we will just ride on their sustainability wave and Hang 10 on the empty barrel that was crude oil.  

What a ride! The future is bright! Just keep digging…