Bill GreenRUDD IS DOING NOTHING TO SAVE THE WORLD
January 26th 2009 06:42
Rudd is doing nothing to save the world. He let his opportunities slip in 2008. He has allegedly put all his faith in the Emissions Trading Scheme (as Malcolm Turnbull states) but as we know Rudd folds in the face of big business (although they're not so big any longer). Big business doesn't believe in global warming. The coal industry says it does and guarantees us that it will reduce emissions on a new form of coal. Don't think so. Scientists say that reducing the emissions from coal would use techniques that also give off emissions - possibly comparable to those saved by changing the water content of coal.
How do we know Rudd folds in the face of business? He gave $2 billion to the car industry so that car dealers could still borrow money. I wrote then that it was a bad idea because it meant that the financial arrangements by which dealers put cars into the showroom was faulty. Ford finance decided that was the case, took their share of the $2 billion, and decided against lending any of it to the car dealers. Has there been an outcry from the Rudd government? NO. And they allegedly told the industry they would only get the money if they adhered to a policy that would keep dealers doing any business, despite knowing that buyers are no longer obsessed with cars.
But why was he even tempted to give money to the car industry when that was one of the major elements in creating global warming? Who knows. Maybe Turnull is right about hasty decisions. That's a problem bvecause I don't want Malcolm to be right about anything. I know Bob Brown is right and predicted how it was all going to result more than a decade ago. We haven't given him the respect he deserves.
Rudd is so out of touch with the real world that he has never even considered that water is going to become the planet's dominant currency. So why doesn't he spend some money on saving water. As there is no longer winter rains in the south (only some in summer) maybe he should be thinking of storing the water that lands around Tully (over ten metres a year). You know, just keeping it so we can buy it later for drinking.
J.F. Ballard, one of the great, and underestimated English novelists, wrote a novel called Drought in 1965. If you want to know how to plan your survival in a dry country it's worth a read.
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