You have to wonder what the ruling class has been smoking when you see how they are responding to the gravest threat to humans civilisation outside of nuclear war.

Case in point is a statement by former AMP Chairman Simon McKeon, shown pointing at the atmosphere, something that he never talks about at work.

Recently, an AMP shareholder had the audacity to ask the outgoing Chairman how he saw the organisation’s role in the transition to a low carbon economy.

It was an excellent question and it was responded with an excellent answer… not.

Shareholder: Does the board agree with the target of limiting global warming to below two degrees? What is AMP’s role in keeping global warming below two degrees through our own business and investment practices?

Simon McKeon: Well, thank you for the question. The answer is that certainly at a board level that’s not a particular question that’s ever been on our agenda. Now we are all individuals we all have strong views, no doubt on a range of different issues, such as that one. But it is not something that is ever on our agenda in the way that you have expressed it.

To be fair, Mr. McKeon did grease the bitter pill by emphasising that the other AMP Governors likely had private opinions on the matter, implying maybe that some of them were not wholly unplugged from reality as Mr. McKeon’s stunning admission would have us believe.

The source of this profound insight into the vacuous leadership of corporate Australia is Reneweconomy and I invite you to watch the short video and try not to laugh / cry / lynch them all.

This incident is further evidence that Australia’s ruling class live in a fantasy land, demonstrated by a dogged refusal to talk about – let alone act on – the advice of climate scientists.

I suspect that one day – when the heatwaves really start filling the morgues – there will be something akin to a Nuremberg Trial for climate criminals.

Should Australia's corporate war on the planet ever go to trial, I suspect that the entire AMP board – and probably 80% of corporate and political Australia – will be found guilty of climate crime and sent to the gallows.

I’ve got some rope in my garage, by the way.

Just saying…