I am not a climate change skeptic, nor am I an alarmist. I read a lot on climate change and the resulting economics of carbon release both on economy of today and the Australia of the future.
What is definite is that The Labor Party's environmental policy designed to put Australia in a global leadership position on the world stage will cause enormous pain for all Australians without having a measureable effect on global climate change.
You see there are a lot of obstacles to Australia saving the world from climate change. We are a mere 3% of the global population and whilst it would be wonderful for us to take a leadership role we are simply going to go through great financial pain while heading in a direction which may well be at odds with the greater global community.
Climate change will be reversed through improvements in technology and practices not through adopting costs prior to world's major economies ratify reduction targets.
A tax on 3% of the globes populations, the direction the Gillard Government is keen to take us is the disastorous direction. Almost similar to the 80's Sony Betamax, ".... hey we got there first but the world figured another solution cheaper and more popular."
The Coalition Policy appears to be a staged approach to climate change based on incentives to change behavior rather than the indescriminate damage of The Labor government which will have a great financial cost today, without recognising our need to follow the major global emmitters of greehouse gases.
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