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Our extravagance is the greatest enemy of the environment : Comments

By Vivien Langford, published 23/1/2019

'Our biosphere is being sacrificed so rich people can live in luxury.'

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What can we top 10% emitters do? Simple really. We should lobby state and federal governments to tell them to spend our money not on renewable subsidies (which are barely making a dent in our CO2 emissions) but on R&D and commercialisation of the new technologies that the entire world needs if we are to decarbonise while also producing power that is despatchable, affordable, safe and industrial scale. The world still does not have the clean, cheap, despatchable, non-intermittent, industrial-scale sources of energy we need to become carbon free, especially when you consider that another 2 billion people around the world want to lift their standards of living to our level.
Posted by Bernie Masters, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:54:12 AM
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Bernie masters,
Well, we could for a start, reduce the 12 hour Mt Panorama Race to 6 hours. We also could curb Bureaucrat excess travel & use video conferencing equipment stored away in boxes.
We could install hinged windows instead of using AC 24/7.
The options are almost endless. A National Service would help change the present mentality of I, Me & Entitlement !
Posted by individual, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 11:02:40 AM
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Nothing Australia could do would make a damn of difference, and we should stop acceding to charlatans and hysterics wanting to give our wealth to no hopers and basket cases.
Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 11:24:16 AM
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Our greatest and most dangerous extravagance is having more than replacement number of offspring.
ONE per person is enough.
Posted by ateday, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 11:32:59 AM
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ateday,

Oh good....like most western countries Australia is already below your target. Latest figures are 1.74 births per woman. So way below replacement levels.

Many European countries are below that again and in some cases way below.

So its just those brown and black babies you want to restrict?
Posted by mhaze, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 2:48:16 PM
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Vivien

u might mean well but having heard these 'scientist' over the last 50 years getting the vast majority of predictions wrong I suggest you take up a real cause of concern. If you are going to stress how about protect the unborn or feed to poor. The high priests of the gw movement are chief hypocrites usually with a vested interest.
Posted by runner, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 3:21:38 PM
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