They’re on the radio this morning talking about Julia Gillard and Carbon Tax. There’s a good article from Terry McCrann in the HeraldSun on 27th.
It is ludicrous. Our Prime Minister’s about-faces, the whole thing in the first place.
A carbon tax will above all suck money out of our pockets and put it in the pockets of those whose pockets are already full of ill gotten gains.
Every large lump of money does exactly this. Compulsory Insurance – the Pension Funds. Fund managers and rich people with Fund shares all profit more and more, playing with those funds, in effect sharing out the wealth represented by them and the wealth created (interest on investment) by them.
And we just lose. And when they make ill advised or greedy or plain stupid or criminal investments and lose the money – global financial meltdown – they lose nothing more than a cessation to the rich inflow of money to their own bank accounts – and sometimes they don’t even lose that – but we, the insured, lose everything. Our Pension funds disappear.
That’s the way it works in the world.
And a Carbon Tax will just do that again.
A Carbon Tax cannot do anything to significantly diminish the world’s Carbon Dioxide load. Not in Australia. Because we represent less than 1% of that load in TOTAL. And the tax does not even pretend to remove our Carbon Dioxide load entirely.
Two coal fired power stations coming online every week in China. See here. But that is a 2007 report. It is hard to get figures for what’s happening today. But there is a good Wiki article (well documented) that you can look at for yourself. Energy Policy In China
But all of that is quite probably – almost certainly – beside the point. For the point is that it is not proven, far from it, that reducing CO2 emissions will reduce global warming!
So:
. It is impossible for little Australia to reduce world CO2 emissions.
. If world CO2 emissions were reduced there’ll probably be no effect anyway – or certainly not enough to stop or reverse global warming.
. We sell more than 30% of the world’s coal. We could just as well cut our sales and claim to have reduced carbon emissions. ‘Not fair, not sound, not logical’ the objectors will cry – if Australia doesn’t sell the coal someone else will. But that’s the point – someone else will produce the emissions we don’t – if we ever could/did reduce our emissions.
The electorate, the politicians keep saying, want something done about global warming.
Yes. That might be true. I certainly do. I’m always very doubtful about anything the politicians say about what ‘the people’ or ‘the electorate’ want – it is usually arrant nonsense, but this time it well could be right. I want to believe it because I want it.
Yes. I want something done about global warming.
But I’m not stupid enough to think we can stop it, or change it.
I want us to prepare for it!
Like bushfires. Prepare.
That’s such a similar thing. After all the bushfire tragedies I as a citizen of Australia am still just as ignorant as I ever was about how to conduct myself and attend to my and my family’s safety in the event of a bushfire if we were to be in the bush.
I wouldn’t know how to assess the safety of a home in the bush – or a bush town – a town – doesn’t look much like the bush – a town with streets and roads and pavement – but they got burned to the ground, didn’t they – I wouldn’t know how to assess if it were safe for us to rent or occupy this or that home.
i.e. after all the talk and all the attention and all the dollars still, from an individual family’s perspective, nothing has been done about the bushfire danger in this country.
And global warming is the same.
Spend millions, make these laws, take money out of our pockets, channel it into those of big business, fund managers, etc., etc., the whole coterie of professional bandits – and when bad effects of global warming arrive, as they certainly will, I and my family and all such as we will inevitably suffer…….
Inevitably.
That’s how it goes, eh?