Dear Robert LePage,

I agree that the Greens should not overlook the effect of overpopulation. In fact I have been trying to make the point in the party that they should emphasise that factor.

However, stabilising or even decreasing the population would not end the problem. Our profligate life style in regard to energy usage is simply not viable. Cars and cattle along with many other factors contribute enormously. Our agriculture which uses oil and land to make food contributes. Australia per capita pollutes many times what India and China pollute per capita.

Abbott doesn't want anything to do with climate change, except for band-aid measures. Climate change will effect big business, so we can't expect anything from him.
It would be best for Abbott not to get the chance, at govt;
The longer this goes on the more urgent it is becoming.
Nasa says the increased co2 in the upper atmosphere is delaying the reentry of space junk, and an increased risk junk collision.
We must continue to advance climate change initiatives, and clean up our polluting ways.

Paul,

"The Greens are the only political party in Australia with a comprehensive policy on climate change and energy."

You must be kidding! It is a combination of a wish list and motherhood/feel good statements. This is why the greens cannot be taken seriously. Simply stating an unrealistic goal does not mean that it can be done

Dear Shadow Minister,

You have implicitly defined dealing with climate change as an unrealistic goal. With the negativity that Abbott and you share it is an unrealistic goal. However, other Australians may not be so negative in dealing with the problem. If they are, you are right. I fear you are, and the result will be disastrous. We can only keep trying.

climate change has been here since the beginning of time. It's a natural phenomenon. Sometimes it's good (end of the ice age), sometimes it's bad (droughts, famines etc).
There's nothing we can do about it as our miniscule emmissions are not the driving force (unless you think that the dinosaurs became extinct for using dirty fuel).

Paul, your green policies include gay marriage and opening the floodgates to illegal immigrants. You never mentioned how these policies will combat climate change (or global warming as it used to be called until that was disproved).

Davidf,

With all due respect, your last post was pure spin and BS.

I have not implicitly defined dealing with climate change as an unrealistic goal, just the green's goals. I could similarly state a goal that there would be no greenhouse gas emissions by 2013, and then claim you are being negative for claiming that it was unrealistic.

I doubt anyone in the greens would know one end of a turbine from another. Their biggest advantage is that they are unlikely to ever have the chance to implement these lunatic ideas and face the millions of unemployed it would create.

In the meanwhile they can continue peddling their snake oil to the 10% of those technically illiterate enough to swallow it.