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blamebrampton) wrote2011-04-02 07:23 pm
blamebrampton) wrote2011-04-02 07:23 pm
One for the Australians
Something I noted in town today with the pro and anti carbon tax people. At the pro rally, there were people of all ages, from toddlers to the ancient.
Everyone I saw wearing Anti T-shirts later was over 55 (or a really rough looking 50).
It's like the 'protests' against the mining tax. It cost the mining industry $22 million to get rid of Kevin Rudd last year, I wonder who's bankrolling the anti carbon tax lot? Especially since they are shrieking on every telly program that will have them, but we don't even HAVE a tax yet, and the one that has been commented on as probably coming in is a business tax, for which a wide range of compensations for lower income earners are also proposed in the very likely event that businesses past on the full cost and possibly gouge a bit more.
I'm thinking of starting a political movement against power companies who have spent the last 40 years ignoring the need for investment in green energy and instead ignoring the future at the same time as increasing their profits by astronomical percentages. Call me wacky, but I think that consumers have far more reason to complain than power generators do.
Meanwhile, back in sane people land, farmers are looking at carbon sequestration using legumes, which seem to be able to increase the soil's ability to store carbon by 10% at the same time as improving their soils. Nice work!
Everyone I saw wearing Anti T-shirts later was over 55 (or a really rough looking 50).
It's like the 'protests' against the mining tax. It cost the mining industry $22 million to get rid of Kevin Rudd last year, I wonder who's bankrolling the anti carbon tax lot? Especially since they are shrieking on every telly program that will have them, but we don't even HAVE a tax yet, and the one that has been commented on as probably coming in is a business tax, for which a wide range of compensations for lower income earners are also proposed in the very likely event that businesses past on the full cost and possibly gouge a bit more.
I'm thinking of starting a political movement against power companies who have spent the last 40 years ignoring the need for investment in green energy and instead ignoring the future at the same time as increasing their profits by astronomical percentages. Call me wacky, but I think that consumers have far more reason to complain than power generators do.
Meanwhile, back in sane people land, farmers are looking at carbon sequestration using legumes, which seem to be able to increase the soil's ability to store carbon by 10% at the same time as improving their soils. Nice work!
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And your political movement doesn't sound wacky at all. :)
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also, thank you for the in. i will endeavour to maintain my eligibility!
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Actually that would be fun, a Climate Change "beliefs" session where people say their "belief" about climate change, or carbon taxes etc.. and sane, rational people sort them into little boxes based on what kind of fallacy they are. Would be a very educative process. It doesn't help to just tell people they're wrong, they need to be shown why they're wrong. Most of the wacky beliefs around climate change aren't about the science as much as about faulty logic.
I accept a certain level of cognitive bias in people as that's just being human, but they should still be able to form a good argument and know what it is that makes an argument solid and how to identify fallacies.
There really should be some kind of mandatory induction course for politicians that covers all this and they're not allowed to speak publically until they've passed with at least 85% proficiency.