The announcement that an Emissions Trading Scheme ( ETS ) will be deferred until 2013 comes as no surprise !
It was dead - and awaiting burial - when the world conference at Copenhagen decided that keeping the economies of the major polluters humming along would take precedence over rising sea levels and the other aspects of global warming.
It is pure political spin to suggest it will be revisited in 2013 - after this coming election has been safely concluded - because as a dead issue the matter of carbon reduction will have entered a new phase.
We will settle for lesser measures. Money will be spent on increasing the number of wind and solar power generating units, and some existing coal fired power stations will be converted to natural gas.
Unfortunately, a far greater danger to life on this planet is being totally ignored.
We are rapidly reaching a population explosion that will exceed the food supply - and this will happen in already overcrowded countries. History tells us that famine turns loose the four horsemen of the Apocalypse - and our future seems to contain a mass exodus of the hungry - looking for greener pastures - for which Australia will be a sure destination.
The arrival of " boat people " at Christmas island is merely the first trickle of what is to come.
Unfortunately we have embraced a policy of living for the moment - and turning a blind eye to the future !
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