Changing lifestyles

By: adamrobertlucas (Registered ) on 17-10-2007 05:36

Graham, it is simply not true that "the community as a whole worries about environmental issues, but they don't want to change their lifestyles to deal with them". For example, the people of greater Sydney have radically reduced their water consumption since being asked to do so by the NSW Govt in response to the drought. Sydney's water consumption last year was the lowest it's been since the early 1970s, when the population was one million people fewer. What the "community as a whole" wants on environmental issues is clear guidance, and constructive, positive and well-informed leadership, not more trivial appeals to their hip pockets or the politics of divide and rule (the Coalition), tinkering at the economic and technical margins (the Right of the ALP) or doom-laden prophecies of disaster which don't provide policy solutions or a collective way forward (some elements of the environmental movement). The solutions are out there and are being implemented by and in other countries (in Europe and some US States) - we just need to pay more attention to what they're doing learn from them,

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