In the next 20+ years the Australian climate, along with the rest of the world, will change for the worse and you also have an energy problem. How are you going to supply and pay for badly needed new electricity generation? You can't go on using coal or gas as your main electricity generation capability. If you go nuclear you still require ample water supply as coolant; where are you going to get that from? That's just one are of funding a govt will have to find. Then there will be managed retreat from the coast as the sea level rises. Govt will be expected to pay for that. You like the other FVEY partners have a bulge in the population pyramid at the 55 - 75 year quantiles where the old age pensioners are now hitting the govt coffers with everything from pension costs to increasing health costs per person as they age. Again that's more money especially with govt tax revenues decreasing as the work age quartiles decrease in numbers. So what does a govt do? Tax highly? That'll go down like a lead balloon.
Mate (and I say this with all due respect),
Is it necessary to start bringing up climate change into the RAAF thread? We keep being told discussions regarding politics are taboo on DT, doesn’t the same apply to views on climate change?
Yes the climate is changing, yes it has in the past long before man, and yes it will into the future too, and long after we disappear from the planet too.
But seeing as though the subject has been bought up ....
Australia is 0.33% of the world population (eg, not the other 99.66%), various reports suggest we produce 1% to 1.3% of global greenhouse gasses (eg, not the other 98.66% to 99%).
Again, what we do, or don’t do, our contribution is a minute amount, in global terms.
Should we be cleaner and greener? Yes, and we are, but the ‘guilt trip’ that is thrown at us by the alarmist green left is way out of proportion to reality.
If we compare Greenhouse emissions on a Continent by Continent basis, Australia is hardly a fart in the wind by comparison, and talking about farts in the wind...
(funny story, one of our supermarkets (Coles), is currently promoting ‘carbon neutral’ beef steak, what? Seriously? Are they stitching the cows arse shut so they don’t fart? Spare me!).
Ample water supply for cooling of nuclear reactor? We have ample water, what we don’t have is ample water storage, and if that wasn’t enough, we have desalination capabilities, currently Sydney and Melbourne have desal plants, and to the best of my knowledge they’ve both spent most of their life in ‘standby’ mode (whilst the taxpayer keeps paying for nothing).
Energy problem? Yes we do, only because we are very stupidly closing down cheap and reliable coal fired power stations ‘before’ the so called renewable sources are cheap enough and reliable enough, we are shooting ourselves in the foot by knee jerk reactions to global doom and gloom predictions.
Low income earners and pensions are suffering significant growth in energy costs, the people who can least afford it, but they are having their voices drowned out by the rich elitist green left of this country, it’s bullshit, complete bullshit.
Anyway.....
This is not the forum to bang on about climate change, is it?
Think I’ve made my point.