This has been very much in the news recently. What are your views on this?
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Shoot all the pollies!
Climate change has been happening for 10's of thousands of years. That fact will not change. It is the speed at which it is progressing now that is the issue. Australia must not rush into an ETS without careful consideration being given to what the rest of the world is going to do as well.
We must wait until after Copenhagen, before we pursue the Energy Industries with permits and so on. All industry must be encouraged to source more environmentally safe energy sources.
this a part of the earths cycle we are in and alot of money is being made by people promoting these scare tactics.If the world is heating up as they say then perhaps wee should get rid of the people causing the problem and i dont think that is going to happen
Whilst I personally believe that the current rate of climate change is related to human activity, the actual cause is somewhat moot. Due to the nature and distribution of human settlement, the significant changes we are seeing in climate throughout the world will have severe and in some cases catastrophic impacts. I think we need to assume that human activity IS a major contributing factor and act to mitigate these impacts as much and as quickly as possible. Better to have acted now, with the level of information we have, than to "wait and see" and potentially exacerbate the situation, leaving our children with an even greater mess to clean up.
As a species, we have consumed resources for such a long time without actually paying for them; in particularly, clean water and clean air. We have happily consumed the products of the industries that have done this, so we can't lay the blame entirely at the feet of the big corporations. However, it is mostly those corporations that have benefited, so they must now begin to pay an appropriate price for the resources they use. As consumers, we will have to accept that the goods and services we crave are going to cost more.
This includes, of the course, the energy industry. We need to take a much longer term view than the current focus on the job impacts of moving away from coal based electricity, for instance. Yes, lamentably people will lose jobs, but in a society like Australia's we should have the capacity to manage those effects whilse also moving towards sustainable energy sources.
In conclusion, I think we all have to stop and recognise the irrefutable and, if you like, inconvenient FACT that we live in a finite system!
I cannot do much more than I am doing to reduce our power bills.
we turn off everything that is not in use, we only use enough gas
to cook with and we have turned down the heat setting on our gas
water heater. The business sector uses huge amounts of all types of energy
so they could do more. But honestly Australia is not going to change much
if the rest of the world does nothing. America and China are the biggest
culprits, with India and other 3rd world countries. We would reduce our
part but to what avail. It is no good just taxing people that is not doing anything about the
actual climate change. The whole world has to get behind it or nothing will alter the fact that the climate
will change,and not for the good.
the whole world should just use as much money as possible now to fix things.
the longer we leave it the more impact it'll cause later on
Louise60: Whilst I personally believe that the current rate of climate change is related to human activity, the actual cause is somewhat moot. Due to the nature and distribution of human settlement, the significant changes we are seeing in climate throughout the world will have severe and in some cases catastrophic impacts. I think we need to assume that human activity IS a major contributing factor and act to mitigate these impacts as much and as quickly as possible. Better to have acted now, with the level of information we have, than to "wait and see" and potentially exacerbate the situation, leaving our children with an even greater mess to clean up. As a species, we have consumed resources for such a long time without actually paying for them; in particularly, clean water and clean air. We have happily consumed the products of the industries that have done this, so we can't lay the blame entirely at the feet of the big corporations. However, it is mostly those corporations that have benefited, so they must now begin to pay an appropriate price for the resources they use. As consumers, we will have to accept that the goods and services we crave are going to cost more. This includes, of the course, the energy industry. We need to take a much longer term view than the current focus on the job impacts of moving away from coal based electricity, for instance. Yes, lamentably people will lose jobs, but in a society like Australia's we should have the capacity to manage those effects whilse also moving towards sustainable energy sources. In conclusion, I think we all have to stop and recognise the irrefutable and, if you like, inconvenient FACT that we live in a finite system! [Please visit the original post to access the poll]
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Louise60, the jury decided you are the winner of the 100 Zoints on offer.
Thanks for you contribution as well as all others for your input.
Regards,
drdamien
eyery subject was covered by this opinion
It's because al governments over the last 20 to 30 thirty years have not kept enough money to the maintanence up therefore we cop high costs