They will gain moral superiority and end 50 million years of droughts and floods.
Carbon tax bill is good news for Australia
Once the dust settles, the majority in Australia are likely to find that the bill will benefit themThanks to a narrow victory for the government, Australia now looks likely to join the EU and New Zealand in introducing a comprehensive policy to make carbon polluters pay for the damage they cause. This is very good news. It has been an uphill battle, with the opposition and business lobby all but claiming that the sky would fall in should the bill be passed.
But once the dust settles and the lamenting subsides, the majority of people of Australia are likely to find that the bill passed on Wednesday benefits them. Much of the money raised from the carbon price of £15 per tonne of emissions will be recycled in the form of tax breaks and compensatory payments.
Australia’s energy system is among the most polluting in the world thanks to its heavy reliance on coal, but Australia’s climate is vulnerable to the impact that climate change brings. Acting to reduce emissions is in the country’s self-interest in the longer term
Being out in front has its advantages and confers a moral superiority but there will always be forces of conservatism who will be made to feel uncomfortable. It is therefore more important than ever that countries in the early adopters group work together to defend their actions and encourage more into the fold.
But this is a more likely outcome
http://thegwpf.org/international-news/4122-green-madness-eu-faces-20-years-of-rising-energy-bills.html
“Green Madness: EU Faces 20 Years Of Rising Energy Bills”
“Tata Steel Warns UK On ‘Over The Top’ Green Policy”
http://thegwpf.org/uk-news/4121-tata-steel-warns-uk-on-over-the-top-green-policy.html
“The head of the European division of Tata Steel of India has warned that a planned £1.2bn investment programme by his company in Britain could be put at risk by the UK government’s “over the top” climate change policies directed at heavy industry.”
Yep the “green investment” magnet.
“Much of the money raised from the carbon price of £15 per tonne of emissions will be recycled in the form of tax breaks and compensatory payments.”
The citizenry pays the 15 pounds per ton by way of higher costs on energy, goods, and services, and then they might get “some” of it back in govt. approved largesse? Sounds like such a good deal… not
What’s the old saying?
“Government of the imbeciles, by the imbeciles, for the imbeciles shall soon perish from the earth.“
Let’s get this right. A “carbon tax” is intended to make carbon-based energy more expensive, thus reducing demand, and forcing producers to use “cleaner”, more expensive alternatives. . The Oz Politburo have decided to sweeten the pill by compensating most households for the additional cost. Does anyone see a flaw in this policy?
Where’s the flaw?
Just because they assume that people are stupid?
Plenty of evidence to support that argument at the moment, unfortunately.
You can see more from the author, Byrony Worthington, at Bishop Hill here:
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2011/9/27/guilty-men-and-guilty-women.html
She was awarded a life peerage to the House Of Lords by the socialist UK government – for services to destroying the UK economy – via the suicidal 2008 Climate Change Act which she drafted.
Where’s Guy Fawkes when you need him?
He (or at least stuffed effigies of him) will be generating lots of life-giving CO2 and sun-blocking aerosols on November 5th. We in the UK like to celebrate our heroes in this manner, which is why effigies of Prime Ministers, past and present, remain unmade, and therefore unburnt.
Teaching science in North London apparently. Sounds like a good candidate to put on the bonfire this year.
http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2006/GuyFawkes.asp
I remember this gal. She’s the one that was involved with creating policies that that were anti-industry. She was warned that these policies would cause loss of jobs beforehand. When her favored policies were enacted and steel companie(s) had to lay off workers she tried to put the blame on the steel companies as if they layed off workers as revenge.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/07/green-economic-thinking-revenge-not-economics/
How do people like this rise to the seat(s) of power?
Scum always rises to the top.
It would be more correct to say that deer hunting benefits the deer, than “Carbon Tax Will Benefit Australians”. At least the survivng deer benefit.
If Australia really wanted to help poor people, they would start printing 100,000,000,000,000(AUD) bills & handing them out in the streets.
Hyperinflation benefits poor people, right?
That is so yesterday.
Just goes to show, just about anything nutty you can think of our ALP government has already done.
The Guardian …………….. I feel like I am going to puke!
I defy the idiots in the Aussie government to put reality based value on the “damage” caused by CO2 emitters. It is impossible without simply outright lying to the people.