Sincerely, or hypocritically? The Australian president "threw" $1 billion, not just to protect the environment.
On the 28th, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison issued a statement promising that his government would add 1 billion Australian dollars to protect the Great Barrier Reef in the next nine years.
It should be noted that although the Great Barrier Reef was once the largest coral reef in the world, it has disappeared in half by 2012.
The reasons for the sharp decline in scale include acidification of seawater, man-made destruction, marine pollution, natural disasters, etc., but the most important cause is global warming.
Morrison himself is a politician who supports fossil fuels, and he even has the nickname of "Coal Mo".
Therefore, the purpose of his additional appropriation is not simple, mainly because Queensland, which is close to the Great Barrier Reef, is very interested in the economic benefits brought by the Great Barrier Reef.
In May, Australia will usher in a new federal parliamentary election, and Morrison is just "temporarily clinging" to the Queensland voters.
