Interestingly that actually aligns nearly perfectly with the Asian demographic % from 20 years ago. Since then the demographic has been increasing by about 50% each census, mostly through immigration. First gen migrants are significantly less likely to enter into politics for really obvious reasons, so actually it makes sense.

Not saying that more can’t be done of course, but yeah, this 1% vs 15% is misleading on both counts

They’ve been studying these in Australia for years, but it doesn’t seem to be gaining much political interest. Which, isn’t surprising given the Australian gov’s typical take on environmental issues (often akin to ‘can’t cars just run on coal?’), but if someone could see the bigger picture these would be amazing for Australia. We have a surplus in free energy from the sub and a huge amount of land that’s already been cleared for agriculture, but the soil is poor and water scarce. We really need these. And it’s kind of future proof - most of our weird comes from exporting energy and minerals, all of which are finite.