The big " con " !

We are assured that if Australia adopts the proposed " cap and trade " plan to curb Co2 emissions it will cost each family just one dollar a day !

Pigs might fly - and have you noticed all those lovely fairies at the bottom of our gardens ?

Someone once said : " There are lies - damn lies - and there are statistics ! "

You can prove - or disprove just about anything by quoting the appropriate statistics.

Let us look at this city of Wollongong as an example.

We have a steel works which employs about six thousand people. It is well run and quite profitable - and it exports much of it's product to overseas countries.

The emission tax will increase the cost of it's product at a time when the world is heading into recession and demand is falling. It's two main competitors - China snd India - will not be adopting a similar tax, hence their product will have a distinct price advantage.

This is called an " unfair playing field " and the obvious end result is either the cessation of steel making in Australia - or the plant being rescourced to a country that is ignoring a cap and trade regime - and also has a much lower wage structure.

The end result is absolutely no reduction of Co2 emissions on a global scale, but a big loss of jobs and lowering of living standards in Wollongong.

Apply this scenario across Australia and we look like being the bunnies. The " politically correct " people who are making sacrifices to save the world - and reducing our once mighty economy to third world status on a matter of principle.

Despite the hope of the " Green minded " that the rest of the world will be named and shamed into following suit there is a certain inevitability about global warming.

We live in a selfish, over populated world. Perhaps this is " Mother Nature's " way of thinning our ranks to sustainable levels.

We would be better advised to plan to live with rising sea levels and a different climate - rather than lead the charge of the Lemmings !