Don't know what you've got til it's gone

By: NickStanton (Registered ) on 13-10-2007 05:14

Richard,  
How sad it is that you have such a cynical view of the world, and seem to be oblivious to the great shape our country is in right now, compared not only to our past, but to the rest of the world. 
Climate change is a real and credible threat to our society. But at the moment we don't know enough about it to be able to declare that the sky is falling, and act accordingly. It needs to be addressed with a scientific and measured response. If Australia became completely carbon-neutral overnight, it would have a negligible impact on worldwide carbon emmisions, but a disastrous effect on our lives. Clean coal is a great theory, but it is ust that, an umproven theory, and after millions of dollars and years of research it may be the answer. It also may not. Hydro is great, but to use the tully-millstream example, environmentalists aren't even happy with that. Fact is renewable energies aren't good enough, and until we have the money to take the risk that we will be able to make them good enough, tried and tested methods such as nuclear are at least worth discussing. 
As a university student during the transition between compulsory and voluntary student unionism i can tell you now, i have lost nothing except the compulsory pleasure of donating money to pro-labor party demonstrations and advertising.

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