Posted by Sigismund on June 30, 2009, at 15:30:48
In reply to Re: A nice little letter, posted by alexandra_k on June 30, 2009, at 5:41:52
>sometimes i feel sick to be a human being.
Quite right too.
I think it is a question of what the democratic system can achieve in this society. With the Emissions Trading Scheme here I think this is what happened: The coal industry went to Rudd in a friendly way and said more or less...'These are your margins in the coal producing electorates. Obviously you cannot expect either us or the unionists to take the destruction of the coal industry lying down. The Liberals will do even less.'
The really dumb thing is that Australia could have been a leader in the development of solar power which could have been developed as an insurance in parallel with the coal industry.
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