The region's Transition Plan makes 52 recommendations for a 'sustainable' shift to 'new industries' but fails to specify where the anticipated jobs will come from or what they will be. As an example of addled policy, consider this: while well-paid jobs in forestry, mining and energy are being deliberately trashed, just $700,000 is budgeted to find something to will replace them

According to the Net Zero game plan, its green-eyed spruikers and rent-seeking beneficiaries, the transition will be among the largest and fastest economic transformations in history. Well they're right in one respect -- it will be transformative, but only in the sense that administering ever-increasing doses of poison transforms good health into misery and mortal collapse