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Friday, November 27, 2009

trade the emissions from my arse, you bastards!

Thanks to the collusion of Australia's pig-shit-thick voters, we've walked ourselves into what is essentially a one-party state masquerading as a democracy. All we get to choose is which faction of the Libor Party (or is it the Laberals) gets to play government for the corporate masters.

The dirtier elements of the corporate masters must be rubbing their hands with glee at how the CPRS (Comprehensive Polluter Reward Scheme) is shaping up to deliver them windfall profits in the billions, whilst reducing emission minimally, if at all, at stupendous cost to us all. In order that the average mug doesn't notice the glee, they take full page ads in the press bemoaning their fate.

An ETS skeptic is different to a climate skeptic. You can be the former without being the latter, I know because I am. The Aussie ETS is about as bad as these things can be; nearly unlimited free permits, but if you do need some more, cheap as chips unlimited offsets available, so no need improve your carbon efficiency. When the offset trees you've planted get destroyed in a wild fire, that's a natural event, so the emissions don't count (except to the planet).

The CPRS locks in failure on climate change for the next decade and is therefore worse than useless. Let's hope the Greens will join with the rabble on the right of the conservative faction and vote the bastard thing down.

I'm not a climate change skeptic, but I do admit that climate is so, so complex that there is a chance they are right. This slim possibility is no excuse for inaction, but as inaction is what we have, and what we are going to get more of, I really, truly hope they are right. Otherwise, we are completely and utterly... [insert preferred expletive here]!

Sunday, November 8, 2009