Peter Ryan’s (acting Premier, VIC) published remarks in the Herald Sun, after the government’s announcement of the Carbon Tax plan on Sunday, strike me as a shining example of the banality of the whole Carbon Tax/Climate change argument, and to a large degree the calibre of the people ‘leading’ it.
I’ve said it a few times now but my position on climate change is that, at the very least, and notwithstanding any arguments for or against Human induced changes, taking action will result in a cleaner world. If Climate change doesn’t kill us all, pollution, and poisoning of our atmosphere will. It’s best we do something, it’s a win win situation.
Victorian Acting Premier Peter Ryan said the federal carbon tax announcement showed Hazelwood was clearly “in the gun”.
“This is an absolute stake in the heart of those at Hazelwood,”
Herald Sun – July 11, 2011
Now, where’s the connection between the Carbon Tax and Hazelwood being “in the gun”? I would have thought that having an old, brown coal burning, station, producing 17,247,970 tonnes of carbon emissions annually would have meant it was “in the gun” whether there was a Carbon Tax or not? It’s time to turn these things off.
What gets me is the notion being implied here that we can keep operating these plants – doing the same thing over and over, spewing tons of carbon into the atmosphere, relying on, and burning, coal instead of adopting and embracing new technologies, for the sake of a few hundred jobs, and thinking that we just keep on doing the same thing over and over and somehow manage to solve the climate change issue.
Isn’t the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?
I expect more of my politicians. I expect the Peter Ryan’s of this world to shut up, stop playing “Henny Penny” politics, get on with dealing with the demise of dirty, and antiquated, last century infrastructure, and solve the ensuing employment issues in the Latrobe Valley as well. Isn’t that what we pay you for?
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