Where logic doesn’t work in the way you expect it too?
Extracts from the two lead articles in this mornings TheAge.com.au
‘KEY climate change measures are tracking near or beyond worse-case scenarios predicted just two years ago, according to a science update drawing on more than 200 recently published studies.’
‘Mr Robb, who was the Opposition’s climate spokesman until he stepped aside because of a depressive illness, declared in a crucial intervention at the first of yesterday’s meetings that the deal the Opposition extracted was not good enough.’
Not good enough? He is right. It is no where near good enough. When scientists are telling us that the climate crisis is worse than we thought, we don’t need to be introducing laws that will reward big polluters with massive payouts, and tying the government into possible further payouts down the line if targets are raised.
Government action should have the twin aims of boosting investment in clean energy, and closing down old, filthy fossil-fuel burning power plants. Not in 20 or 30 years time, but now.
We will be meeting tonight, Wednesday, at 7.30, at 673 Bourke St to tell our politicians what we think of this sell-out legislation.
Nick
