Mosaic News
Editorial Cartoon
A cheerful mining boss waves off a coal ship as if the problem is sailing away for good. Meanwhile the smoke from burning that coal overseas curls into a giant boomerang arcing back toward him. The cartoon skewers the fiction that exported emissions are someone else's problem, the 'scope 3' blind spot the court just closed.
+How this was made
The ruling turns on one idea: emissions exported overseas still come back home. That idea has an iconic Australian visual shorthand, the boomerang, that readers anywhere will recognise instantly. Unlike the war, election and outbreak stories, it needs no real faces, carries a sharp satirical twist, and touches every coal- and gas-exporting nation.
The story was selected and the image prompt was written by AI. The cartoon image was generated by AI.