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Labor votes with Coalition against ratifying Kyoto Protocol; no chance for Greens’ Climate Change Action Bill 2006 Federal Greens Senator Milne’s (Tasmania) Climate Change Action Bill 2006 was voted down by the Federal Labor and the Coalition working in concert to oppose it in the Senate on Thursday, 21 March 2007.
In many ways, Israel is similar to the medieval Crusader states in the Holy Land. It has a different religion and different institutions from all of its neighbours. It looks west for its military and economic support and if it were not for that support would be unlikely to survive for long. Just as with Continue Reading →
Waste is big business. Australians spend over $2billion each year on disposing of around 30 million tonnes of waste. Over 1700 companies operate in the waste disposal sector employing about 10,000 people. The waste management industry is bigger than sugar or cotton and only marginally smaller than Australia’s annual export of grapes.
Big business it may be, but that two billion dollars produces nothing and, while it adds to the published GDP, adds no value to the economy. In an attempt to reduce the rising costs of landfill governments actively promote recycling.
As individuals, Australians enthusiastically embrace recycling. We separate paper, glass, metals and recyclable plastic from the rest of our rubbish. Many of us compost kitchen scraps and garden waste, some councils offer a third, green topped bin for garden waste.
We get a warm inner glow from carting the yellow (or purple) topped wheelie bin into the street once a fortnight, confident that we can save our grandchildren from a mad Max future. They shall not fight over the few, remaining resources among the remnants of a once great civilisation, just so long as we sort our rubbish.
This view is over simplistic. In fact, something about the waste management business smells and it is not just the unwashed wheelie bins.
Australia needs to fight
In his only Australian interview from Nairobi, Sir Nicholas Stern politely urged John Howard to embrace Kyoto. He said, having all countries involved in the protocol would be a signal that the world was united in the fight against global warming. It was a battle in which “Australia has a lot to contribute – in the technology of carbon capture and storage,” for example. “A lot of Australians are interested in this issue (of global warming). Australians will be suffering from climate change,” said Sir Nicholas, who may visit Australia next year to discuss his report.
Constructive spirit of UN summit: Speaking at the United Nations summit on climate change in Nairobi on Thursday, the adviser to Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, told The Age that he did not share the widespread sense that the summit had been a failure. “I think the spirit here is very constructive. There is a deep and general understanding of what has to be done, and so I have been rather encouraged.”
According to Christian Berthelsen and Tina Susman in Baghdad, reported in The Sydney Morning Herald (28/02/2007, p.9), the US had long wanted to capitalise on Iraq’s oil resources as a means of paying for the country’s reconstruction since the 2003 invasion. Oil’s importance was reiterated in the Iraq Study Group report released in December. The Continue Reading →
Illegal Japanese whaling events in the Antarctic have hit Australian newspapers, televison and radio this week. No broadcaster in any medium has described the Japanese Government’s whaling activities as illegal. Click here to view the rules and treaties the Japanese Government is violating. What are the mainstream newspapers saying? Front page on The Sydney Morning Continue Reading →