Comments on: Clive Hamilton essay: Politics trumps science in Garnaut report http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/30/clive-hamilton-essay-politics-trumps-science-in-garnaut-report/ now with extra source Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:01:11 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/30/clive-hamilton-essay-politics-trumps-science-in-garnaut-report/#comment-5964 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5964 I'm for breaking the Lab-Lib-gNat political economic monopoly, and their Big Media revolving door. Sustainability must be the goal not arrogant wealth. The truth is there are too many of us and too much consumption. The major parties are liars about this most basic of facts. We need to make a break from the business as usual rubbish. Garnaut sounded like he was a reading the eulogy for the End of western civilisation. If so I think he was about right. Every supermarket is a riot of excess meaningless choice. We don't NEED all that sh*te. I’m for breaking the Lab-Lib-gNat political economic monopoly, and their Big Media revolving door. Sustainability must be the goal not arrogant wealth. The truth is there are too many of us and too much consumption. The major parties are liars about this most basic of facts. We need to make a break from the business as usual rubbish. Garnaut sounded like he was a reading the eulogy for the End of western civilisation. If so I think he was about right. Every supermarket is a riot of excess meaningless choice. We don’t NEED all that sh*te.

]]> By: Tim http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/30/clive-hamilton-essay-politics-trumps-science-in-garnaut-report/#comment-5965 Tim Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5965 Perhaps you miss the most obvious point mate - the Garnaut Review might be well-reasoned if demonstrably flawed, but it presents very conservative reduction targets to the Rudd Government, which will in all likelihood decide upon an even more conservative target outside of Garnaut's options. <br /><br />Then Rudd will probably claim that Garnaut's Review was too extreme... sigh Perhaps you miss the most obvious point mate - the Garnaut Review might be well-reasoned if demonstrably flawed, but it presents very conservative reduction targets to the Rudd Government, which will in all likelihood decide upon an even more conservative target outside of Garnaut’s options.

Then Rudd will probably claim that Garnaut’s Review was too extreme… sigh

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