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So a "White Elephant" came to mean a possession that is useless, troublesome, expensive to maintain, and difficult to dispose of - like a Sacred Cow, but much bigger. [bold, links added]
Today, the deluded rulers of the Western world are gifting us and future generations with plagues of Green Elephants - useless, expensive, protected green rubbish.
The biggest green elephants in Australia are the five desalination plants built hurriedly when climate catastrophist Tim Flannery forecast that burning hydrocarbons would create perpetual drought.
He forgot La Nina with its cycles of rain and floods for Australia. Flannery's complex, expensive de-sal plants have largely sat idle.
The sun powers the greatest desalination plant on earth, all for free. If we had spent all that desalination money on dams we could have moderated La Nina flood damage, insulated against El Nino droughts, and provided naturally desalinated water for many towns and industries.
Australia was also conned into a war on hydrocarbons by American climate catastrophist Al Gore and his animated cartoon.
This generated another epidemic of Green Elephants — solar panels, wind turbines, and spiderwebs of power lines that squander capital, uglify our landscapes and destroy grasslands, forests, and birdlife, as well as destroying our once-cheap and reliable electricity supply.
Future generations will be faced with the removal and disposal of these Green Monuments to Stupidity.
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