It has certainly been an amazing day amongs federal Liberal Politicians as they argued their way through whether to toe the party line and support the negotiated proposal for a CPRS in Australia.
Wouldn't you hate to be Malcolm Turnbull? "I am the Leader, and I will not lead a party that is not as committed to addressing Climate Change as I am." Whatever happens he has stated the obvious bloody truth.
The cause for dismay really, is that what is on the table really does seem to be a proposal for "Polluters Payday" as Bob Brown described it. I can't understand where the incentive to cut emissions is if people are being compensated left right and centre.
My general disposition towards the "lefty, pinko, chardonay-sipping, latte-drinking bleeding heart socialist" takes on a decidedly GREEN colour in the context of this debate.
The science will always be in disagreement with itself - too many variables - but it is self-evident that plans need to be made to counteract the consequences we can counteract and to substitute the finite resources that will eventually be exhasuted.
At the end of the day, the differences between the Labour Party and the Liberals on Climate Change is a matter of priorities - which sectors will be compenstated, and by how much. Only time will tell if it makes anything like the difference they say it will.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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