gringo2011
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Apparently all of them are talking about what "they say" their opponents are "going to do".
So the Liberals are talking about the taxes that Labor will raise after they get in to finance their lucrative promises.
Similarly Labor are talking about the Education funding shortfall that Liberal are on track for ( still an increase on the current) ......compared to the funding that Labor are proposing to have 2 budgets into the future if they get elected.
Getting ******* sick of the Hollowmen.
On the Environment. Australia has 1.5% of global emmissions.
Now it would be great if we could drive Bill's electric cars. ( there are a million good reasons why that promise was idiocy and the best the Liberal dickheads could come out with , was that it would be like driving a toaster. Dumbass obviously doesn't know about Tesla ) and fix Australia's climate. But it GLOBAL.
We can stop all of our Emissions and this will still be happening.
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A report released yesterday by a consortium of researchers known as the GlobalCarbon Project finds that global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are likely to have increased by about 2.7 percent in 2018, after a 1.6 percentincrease in 2017
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Global carbon emissions in 2018 are set to hit an all-time high of 37.1bn tonnes. Almost all countries are contributing to the rise, with emissions in China up 4.7%, in the US by 2.5% and in India by 6.3% in 2018. The EU's emissions are near flat, but this follows a decade of strong falls.Dec 5, 2018
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Every year the GLOBAL emissions increase by more than ALL of Australia's emissions.
Now if you came from another planet and saw this problem , and decided to convince the idiot humans to fix it. Would you single out the Australian Prime Minister ? Looks like a job for SUPERSCOTT.
Yet Greenpeace , who have been on the scene a bit longer, seem to think thats the appropriate place to start.
I guess if they tried their BS in China they'd quietly vanish. Maybe even in the US :/ Chickenshit Greenpeace choosing soft, but insignificant targets.
Europe doing great, but by the same token, lets not forget that Australia still has a lot of remote places that still have to generate their own.
Hey I have a great idea. We could get all of Energy from Alkaline D Cells. If we import them from China or India , the energy from making them won't count against Australia and we will reduce our Emissions. OK its stupid, but it points out that anything to do with global warming needs to take a holistic approach.
It's going to need to switch eventually and if you start to move into it now, it won't be all at once. We have obviously shifted manufacturing to poor parts of the world and then act like they should do something to fix solution despite us consuming most of their crap that they are producing.
Legislation could end lots of issues but governments are weak willed or corrupt. You could make people pay a leveraged tax on bigger cars so that it promoted the use of less polluting cars. You could tax plastics to encourage reuse of glass etc. Governments are not really acting to fix issues any more, they usually just * around and not do anything while trying to polish their turds until the next election cycle begins.
Remote areas are ideal for self generation because joining grids is expensive.