Here’s what one blogger said of Aussie Prime Minister’s ‘cut’ of 5% today,” This is a shameful act of political and moral bastardry!
 
We needed to have 20% reduction from 1990 levels by 2020 and 60% reduction by 2050.

This is the start of the planet losing whole different ecosystems - as the higher latitudes become temperate and the deserts expand into previously temperate higher latitudes.

 A visit to a zoo in 200 years time representing the animals of the world will have about 3 exhibits.



Exhibit 1 - the most common animal in the world, The Camel.


Exhibit 2 - a stuffed, extinct polar bear


Exhibit 3 - a stuffed, extinct penguin.



All because the people we elected to look after our interests are too interested in the finer things of public life and are more afraid of losing them than doing the right thing for generations to come.
 
With so much energy falling onto our country every single day from the sun it is shameful that our society has timidly clung to digging up rocks and burning them rather than embrace the opportunity of planning our energy future from the ground up - using cleaner, saner and renewable energy technologies.
 Future generations will condemn us.”

I REALLY agree! Especially about the stuffed Penguin!

The Australian Government has further betrayed its voters (who elected Rudd on a ‘join up to Kyoto’ banner) by further increasing the amount of free permits allocated to those industries (the really BIG polluters!)  described as trade exposed because they face international competition and cannot pass the cost of a trading scheme onto consumers.

One threshold for eligibility has also been lowered, meaning more companies will be covered by the assistance.

The amount of free permits available to those industries - such as aluminium, cement, lime and silicone production - has been increased to 25 per cent, compared to 20 per cent flagged in the green paper.

That amount would rise to 35 per cent once agriculture is included in the scheme, which is not expected until at least 2015.

Well maybe I’ll be extinct – but at least there will still be plenty of camels!

PG