Climate defense plans undermined

Australia's new government has undermined its climate defense plans by encouraging new natural gas extraction projects and describing natural gas as an "ally" of decarbonization.

A precipitous gas shortage and price spike would cause a crisis; that is not desirable. What Australia needs (like the rest of the world) is a planned, steady and predictable rise in the price of gas. That's easy to do with a tax, scheduling tax increases annually until decades from now.