Government indifference to serious emissions reduction is driven by political greed because they don’t want to be exposed to the voter policy backlash from actually cutting emissions.
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NGOs don’t actually like being called NGOs. They prefer being referred to as “civil society”.
Rumours around the conference are that a group of NGOs will try and storm the conference centre to try and get access to political leaders.
I attended the Copenhagen Climate Challenge Conference. It was about the science of climate. Speakers were scientists, lawyers and environmentalists.
Almost all of the disagreements between people take place down in the quagmire of detail and of what precisely the role of government should be.
The knockers of Quadrant have yet to understand or admit that during the Cold War the friends of Quadrant were on the honourable and humanitarian side while the communists and their fellow travellers were not.
It is interesting to speculate on whether, if Justice Higgins had emigrated to India rather than Australia, working class Indians would all be enjoying a “fair and reasonable wage”.
Our “ABC acknowledged that the American War of Independence took place between 1775 and 1783.” Or to put it another way: Oops!
The real surprise at the AFI Awards was that Cate wasn’t nominated for anything. I mean, this is Cate we’re talking about.
Paul Samuelson understood the importance of ideas in shaping the world. It is his ideas as a disciple of Keynes that, for better or worse, now shape policy decisions across the entire world.
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