Could Australian Election Results Be A Cautionary Tale For The Eco-Left?

They said that the election was “unlosable.” Pundits predicted a stunning victory for the Australian Labor Party, which had wed itself to an extreme eco-activist agenda. As the Washington Times explains, what was supposed to be a stunning victory turned into stunning defeat. “Running on a climate-change platform, the left-wing party lost a supposedly ‘unlosable’ election on Saturday to the conservative Liberal/National Party Coalition, led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who once praised fossil fuels while holding up a chunk of coal on the floor of Parliament.” One political scientist in Australia put it bluntly: voters feared the eco-left’s “climate policy” agenda…