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Labor’s death wish : Comments
By Peter McMahon, published 1/12/2006The ALP is defunct - run by soft-headed opportunists with minimal understanding of the contemporary world.
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Despite what the polls say, the population's commitment to tackling it is soft. It's dead easy to say to a pollster you support more government action on climate change - most people don't understand yet that it will demand that they pay more for their electricity. Take the poll after that dawns on them and they'll be a lot more circumspect.
I suspect the left loves the global warming issue because it permits, no demands, a quasi religious fervour. The more you believe it must be tackled now with drastic action, the more ideologically correct you are. Because it's a phenomenon that will be played out over decades, likely hundreds of years, real results are difficult to measure. Faith is what is required.
This is not to say that greenhouse gas emissions should not be reduced. I think that would be prudent. But people aren't going to accept some of the more radical nonsense being espoused by the Greens and the left of Labor. More likely they will accept considered measures that reduce emissions in the long term and learn to live with a slightly hotter climate over the next century or so.