What does 'net zero' actually mean?

Australian Community Media

While governments and businesses throw the term 'net zero' around, what does it actually mean to the everyday Aussie? ACM hit the streets to ask Australians across the country what 'net zero' is to them and its impact on their lives.

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00:00The thing that gets to me is the fact that I don't believe that humans can rectify climate change.

00:12It doesn't mean really much to me. I don't know.

00:16This is crucial, I think, for limiting the severity of climate change impacts like extreme weather.

00:21If we don't, the flooding we've seen recently in the Hunter, the Mid-North Coast,

00:25these one-in-100-year floods that are occurring every few years,

00:30they'll keep happening and with greater frequency and severity.

00:34I don't think that there's anything that we can do to necessarily stop climate change.

00:38I reckon we could probably help it, but I think that's just the way the world works.

00:43Net zero, I'm not really sure what that is. I'm going to have to Google it.

00:47Making sure that we're using the right type of fuel, electricity.

00:52I think that's great, but the earlier the better. I'm not sure if they should be waiting until 2050 to do it.

00:58It's a waste of time, a waste of money. It's just going to put power bills through the roof.

01:03I'm sort of against it because there's not enough sunlight anywhere in the world to keep the whole power grid going.

01:11It's a waste of time. Windmills cost more to make and after 50 years they're buggered.

01:17Having said all that, us living here in Tasmania, we're quite lucky we're having hydropower,

01:23which is very good and clean power.

01:26Oh well, I know that it's an aspirational aim to bring down the amount of energy that we're producing

01:39to be the same as the amount of energy that we're using.

01:43The question is, what does net zero mean to you?

01:46What's net zero?

01:49I think that's pretty much perfect.

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