Day of Action against 5% climate target
Blog Post | Blog of Christine Milne
Monday 15th December 2008, 6:29pm
It's hard to find the words to express quite how atrocious today's decision announcement has been.
Here's a video that expresses what a lot of us are starting to think - that all those who voted for Kevin Rudd thinking he'd be better than John Howard on climate change were sold a lump of coal.
If you're angry, come along tomorrow and join us at the rallies listed here.
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Pathetic
These 5% targets are a total joke. Rudd would have bee better off actually doing nothing. Rud is just as bad as Howard thats obvious. The Greens need to be ramping up the advertising in relation to ALP political donations.
At least Howard had the
At least Howard had the honesty to admit he is a climate sceptic, Rudd had me convinced he would really tackle the issue yet we get an outcome probably no better than Howard would have given us. Let down again by politicians again. How will they be able to look their children and grandchildren in the face this Christmas. We are stealing their heritage from them for purposes of short term political expediency. Doug Gaze
oh I'm angry alright. I've
oh I'm angry alright. I've spent the whole afternoon being angry on the internets! Time to take it to the streets eh... See you at the rally (although I'll be in Sydney :)
ETS Legislation.
I am not surprised by this target. My personal experience of responses (or lack there of) to letters sent to PM, Deputy PM, Minister for Energy/ Climate change (and several were CCd to Christine) are leading me to believe the government just used the 60% by 2050 and 20% by 2020 targets as leverage to get elected. 10 years to cut 5%, 30 years to cut a further 55%........
I'd like to see the greens Ammend the legislation to require a Solar Thermal power station to be built or Force a Double Dissolution and then put the onus on the government to exaplain why it hasn't enacted legislation to build a pilot plant of a large gigawatt scale solar thermal plants (focus light, create heat, pipe heat underground, store heat, and use heat to spin turbines ala geothermal) to allow the coal stations to reduce emissions by burning less rather than burning the same and piping it somewhere and crossing fingers it stays there.
If you had enough in inland places, you could continually look at the 7 day forecast and maybe even turn off a couple of coal stations, paying them a retainer to remain commissioned so security of supply isnt in jeapordy.
Sure its like two power stations for the price of one, but one of those power stations has zero fuel costs
And If the costs of running the solar power stations became cheaper than running the coal/gas power stations, then economics, (with an ETS or not) would increase demand for the technology, here and overseas.
I'm also considering creating a petition calling on the government to do such a thing (any advice Tim ?)
youtube rudd=howard
sorry, but the above is a ridiculous inclusion on this website. i, and many of my peers vote for the greens party. a picture of rudd that turns into howard is truly unproductive and immature.
greens party! please get it together and have a little more integrity than those we are criticising. one day it would be great if the greens could govern, or at least form coalition, but such tactics only make this party look laughable.
this really saddens me..
if we really want to do something about this we have to work hard, and smart, and strategically rather than just putting in the same old childish political games we've come to expect from the others.
do your job, that we have been voting you to do,
Another reason why
This is just one more reason that it is the very system, not just the leaders that represent it, that must change. It's disgusting that Rudd is being so complacent with our future, our country and our image across the world, but most of us that truly pay close attention to the details of the political drama and its underlying motivations in this country (and globally) can't truly say that they're very surprised. Rudd, and whomever may replace him, will be a pushover to corporate power on all the important points until we, the people (who prop up and do the work for corporate power i might add), demand real change with real action.
Time to transcend all that seperates us within the movement for a humane and truly sustainable system, and unify together beyond petty factionalism.
It's atrocious. I just
It's atrocious.
I just turned off all the unused appliances at the wall. There you go, I saved 5% of my total energy use. Wow, that was stressful, no wonder Rudd gave me 12 years to recover.
"Unambitious" is the most generous word I can use to describe it.
I am horrified by this
I am horrified by this betrayal of the trust I placed in Labour by voting for them. I once voted Labour exclusively, never again, it is Greens from here on in.
rudd
The PM should be reminded what democracy is about and hold his white paper to a referendum. It only took Rudd twelve months what Howard did over several years. Become the laughing stock of the International community and a shallow politician servile only to big business. And to show how out of touch and how owned they are by big business and the media, they front up to open a sketch of a car based on 120 year old technology and a car that should have been built 10 years ago, by a company that is on the verge of bankruptcy.
If this was a movie it would be advertised as a total fictional story about the never ending corruption in make believe democracies.
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