Legend says that if you displeased the king of Siam, he would give you a white elephant.  These rare and protected elephants were incredibly expensive to keep.  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.

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 Niña with its cycles of rain and floods for Australia.  Flannery's complex, expensive desal 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 Niña flood damage, insulated against El Niño 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 cartoon.  This generated another epidemic of green eephants — solar panels, wind turbines, and spider webs of power lines that squander capital; uglify our landscapes; and destroy grasslands, forests, and bird life, as well as destroying our once-cheap and reliable electricity supply.  Future generations will be faced with removal and disposal of these Green Monuments to Stupidity.

Another green elephant is being suckled in the Snowy Mountains — Snowy 2 Pumped Hydro.  Its plant and transmission lines will cost $10 billion for a facility that is a net consumer of electricity.  More huge batteries are required to "solve" the chronic intermittency of wind/solar energy.

More green elephants are being planned by hydrogen speculators.  These net consumers of energy will guzzle huge quantities of fresh water to produce a dangerous, explosive gas that cannot be used by motorists or industry without much research and new infrastructure.  Some even dream of exporting our precious fresh water via hydrogen (nine tons of water for every ton of hydrogen).

Perhaps the world's biggest green elephant is being bred in Australia's Northern Territory.  This green folly would connect the world's biggest collection of solar "farms," wind turbines, and batteries to Singapore via the world's longest undersea extension cord across a deep submarine trench subject to many earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions.

These disastrous Green adventures are driven by the U.N. billionaires' club and promoted endlessly by government media, education bureaucracies, and vocal vested interests.

This plague of green elephants will destroy our industries, our farms, and our access to cheap reliable fuels and electricity.

It is time for a green elephant hunt.

Image: Pam Fray.