It will be because the alternative is too horrible to allow. Old monsters like Trump are the biggest threat because they have no empathy and just don’t care.

We’re only a minnow so we”ll make as much as we can from our fossil fuels( well international corporations mainly) until the rest of the world catches up with us.

The climate cares only about total emissions. Per capita is irrelevant.

This is not to say Australia should not try and improve its emissions, but the simple reality is that climate change is either going to be limited by mostly China, America and India, or not at all.

Thank you for using figures. Numerical measurements allow us to set goals, make comparisons and check facts. You risk the ire of many of the faithful who would prefer that you chant slogans instead.

Why is there this automatic assumption that China’s interests are different to ours in a way that India’s, Indonesia’s or the USA’s aren’t? Only because the USA tells us they are, and we believe them.

China’s 2018 carbon emissions = 8.4 tonnes per person.
Australia’s 2018 carbon emissions = 24.79 tonnes per person.

And those figures ignore the climate debt the rich Western countries owe the rest of the world because the dangerous levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere at the moment have historically been produced by the developed countries.