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Britain’s efforts to cut carbon emissions have been hampered by government infighting and a reluctance to stand up to industry, according to the UK’s former climate change minister. Elliot Morley, head of the new energy and climate change select committee, said tensions between different government departments had undermined moves to cut greenhouse gas pollution. Policies Continue Reading →
A combination of government buy-back and thirsty irrigators has earned agribusiness giant, Tandou more than 43 million dollars in the last 12 months. The company sold one quarter of a million megalitres to the government late last year, announcing that the sale was sufficient to pay off all the company’s bank debt. It has continued to sell temporary water allocations and is now cashed up and looking for opportunities to buy up land and water rights from distressed farmers. The company retains rights to over 30,000 Megalitres of water.
Food prices will rise sharply during winter warned the Australian Agriculture Minister Tony Burke. He said that estimates of the number of cattle killed in the Queensland floods stand at around 150,000 but accurate figures will not be known until musters take place in May or June.”Certainly most of last season’s calves will have been taken out” he said. Up to 20 percent of the cane crop has also been lost to floods. The fires across Victoria have destroyed a large percentage of the state’s fruit crop with apples and stone fruits the most affected.”If there was ever a time to be picky, it’s not the next few months,”the minister concluded.
Social researcher and Pullitzer Prize winner, Jared Diamond, has predicted a 49% chance western civilisation will collapse, due to the way politicians and key decision makers are dealing with the current crises – the world economic meltdown, peak oil, overpopulation, and the ongoing rape of the environment.
One of the main historical predictors of a civilisation surviving is role of its decision makers. “If decision makers themselves suffer from the consequences of their actions, they are motivated to make decisions good for the whole of society,” says Diamond. “But if decision makers are able to insulate themselves from the rest of society, then they are more likely to make decisions that are bad for the rest of us.”
From the Australian
THE Rudd Government is increasingly isolated on the emissions trading scheme, with business supporters demanding further concessions to mitigate its immediate impact and green groups and the Coalition intensifying their attacks.
A day after the Government was forced to confirm publicly it was sticking by its plans to introduce an ETS in July next year, after cancelling an inquiry into the scheme, the Opposition accused the Government of being divided on the issue and the Business Council of Australia said more action was needed to reduce its impact on business during the economic crisis.