(Archive for 'Greenhouse gases'
Jonathan Moylan, stunts, the working class and fighting climate change
Posted by John, January 11th, 2013 - under Climate change, Coal, Global warmng, Green energy, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases, Jonathan Moylan.
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Stunts like Moylan’s will draw attention to the issues at least momentarily and I defend his actions. But to really address climate change, to stop the mining of fossil fuels and to move rapidly to a totally renewable energy society requires the working class entering on to the stage of history and overthrowing the impediment to real change – capitalism. The working class has to be our focus for fundamental change.
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Climate change: the snake oil salesmen of capitalism battle it out
Posted by John, February 3rd, 2010 - under Cap and trade, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Climate change, Climate change deniers, Green energy, Greenhouse gases, Labor Party, The Liberals.
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Tony Abbott has concocted a climate change ‘direct-action’ plan that should appeal to every denier. Like Labor’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme it pretends to do something while refusing to attack the big polluters. Abbott’s ‘plan’ doesn’t stop CO2 emissions; it encourages them. According to Government figures (suspect, but likely to have some truth in them), Abbott’s scheme will [...]
Penny Wong: an insult to demonstrators and intelligence
Posted by Bill, June 14th, 2009 - under Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, CPRS, Capitalism, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Climate change, Demonstrations, Emissions Trading Scheme, Fighting back, Global Warming, Green energy, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Penny Wong, Resistance, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, The Greens, The Left.
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On Saturday we demonstrated across Australia to reject the Rudd Government’s climate change ‘response’, which is a crime against present and future generations.
The Minerals Council: mining bullshit
Posted by Bill, May 24th, 2009 - under Australian politics, CFMEU, CPRS, Capitalism, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Climate change, ETS, Emissions Trading Scheme, Global Warming, Great Recession, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases, Jobs, Labor Party, Minerals Council, Mining, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, Unions, Workers, sackings, unemployment.
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Employment in the mining industry will double over the next decade. Scaremongering about job losses is so the bosses can get even more money out of us.
Isn’t the market wonderful?
Posted by Leonie, May 8th, 2009 - under ALP, Environment, Great Recession, Greenhouse gases, Market.
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The market is a wondrous thing. It solves all our problems though some mystic and magical force. Occasionally the potion doesn’t work. All we end up with is a sour taste and a sick stomach. Take the environment. The market has been a wonderful success there, ensuring that profit comes before such minor things as [...]
Follow the Maldives Kevin
Posted by John, March 17th, 2009 - under ALP, Australian politics, Big business, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, ETS, Emissions Trading Scheme, Global Warming, Green energy, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases, Labor Party, The Maldives.
Comments: 6
The Maldives is going carbon neutral. Force Rudd, the Mister Magoo of climate change, to follow them and lead the developed world.
Jobs and posting
Posted by John, March 17th, 2009 - under Blogging, Environment, Environmental law, Global Warming, Green energy, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases, Jobs, Law.
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I have just accepted a part time job offer working on environmental law. I am pretty excited by the prospect of learning about a whole new area of policy and law. For the blog it means my posts might be slightly less frequent (although I love doing this so much I might just end up [...]
Emissions trading: a pollution and profits bonanza
Posted by John, March 13th, 2009 - under ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian politics, Big business, CPRS, Capitalism, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Climate change, ETS, Emissions Trading Scheme, Global Warming, Green energy, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases, Jobs, Labor Party, Living standards, Penny Wong, Resistance, Socialism, The Left.
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Labor’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is about profits for the polluters, not cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Liz Ross argues in the latest edition of Socialist Alternative. Rudd’s done it again! One more broken promise. Remember when Labor said they’d tear up WorkChoices – well we’ve got WorkChoices-not-so-lite instead and they kept all the “special” laws [...]
The Peter Garrett Good Government Guide – An Oily Analysis
Posted by John, March 13th, 2009 - under ALP, Aborigines, Afghanistan, Australian politics, Big business, Bush, CPRS, Capitalism, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Climate change, Emissions Trading Scheme, Fighting back, Global Warming, Greenhouse gases, Howard, Jobs, Labor Party, Living standards, Midnight Oil, Mining, Musings, Peter Garrett, Pine Gap, Racism, Reformism, Resistance, Social Democracy, unemployment.
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Ive used the lyrics from some of Midnight Oil’s songs to measure the worth of the Rudd Government. Peter Garrett is (or technically was) the Oils’ lead singer. They have re-formed briefly for some bushfire relief concerts this weekend. Garrett’s day job is as the Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts in Rudd’s Labor Government. Here are some [...]
Labor’s Carbon Pollution Scheme – the R’s fallen out
Posted by John, March 10th, 2009 - under ALP, Australian politics, CPRS, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Climate change, Demonstrations, Economics, Emissions Trading Scheme, Environment, Fighting back, Global Warming, Greenhouse gases, Labor Party.
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Rudd will only act on green jobs and green energy if we force him. Let’s mobilise for a new world.