The essential thing was, though it was NZ and Oz respectively in the satire, the themes were universal … and therefore prescient … they would hold up in another country, even in another era. To my mind, as with Defoe, Swift and Python … that is the highest form of satire.
There is no sane, genuinely sustainable energy policy … just markets and insanity:
Strewth, Bruce, they were good, weren’t they?
“A choice of what?” – “No the watts are exactly the same”
Classic!