LitFuse

I love the smooth logic of Barry Brook. In his blogpost “Climate debate missing the point” Barry states that “real-world energy plans have to work in the real world. Does yours?”. Well, not the CPRS and not planting a few million trees.

When I ask around, even the climate skeptics see the need to shift from out currently energy mix to an alternative, for reasons other than climate change. the majority of Australians support nuclear power as an option. There are powerful vested interests who would like to stop alternatives being developed, but they are not so powerful that a strong government couldn’t push through their concerns. The real problem seems to be that the Federal Government in particular raises so much money from coal royalties that they a terrified of a loss in revenue. So a plan to move Australia’s energy mix forward must address this issue. A solution to the gap in revenue to pay for hospitals, roads and stimulus packages needs to be found that is economically viable and politically acceptable.

Written by Paul Dalby on 5 March 2010

~ by litfuse on March 5, 2010.

Posted in LitFuse, climate change
Tags: barry brook, climate change, coal, nuclear, paul dalby