What does Labor know about climate change or economics? Were any of their front bench lawyers like Peter and me? We lawyers are AWESOME and know EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING. Not like those stupid "rock stars". *spits*
I'm also enjoying Howard's attack on emissions targets - if we just stop producing the gases without developing new technologies, it'll cost the economy money!
Duh.
Apparently he thinks that Australians are, frankly, knuckle-dragging morons. Okay, so he's got some evidence for this (we've elected him four times), but to suggest that Australians who tell pollsters they're concerned about climate change and want action don't understand that it'll have some economic consequence, well. That's fairly insulting.
His estimates for just how much real measures to halt climate change will cost are of course as optimistically pessimistic as they come, and rely essentially on whoever implements them being a sociopathic lunatic ruling over a country of apathetic simpletons who lack humanity's basic ability to adapt to new circumstances. Obviously if we reduced, over the next 13 years, our dependence on coal, no-one is suggesting that we stop bloody well using electricity full stop and go back to living in mud huts. The Greens and ALP are suggesting that we use electricity more efficiently, and we find renewable methods of producing it.
Howard's doom scenario ("Garrett-led recession" indeed) depends on us gazing sadly at closed coal plants wishing we could think of some other way to produce electricity, whilst picking grubs off each other's fur and flinging faeces at buildings. He thinks we're ridiculously stupid.
I look forward to the country showing him we're not when he eventually calls the election.
