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| now they are calling him Kyoto Kev???? |
paraclete |
12/24/08 |
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,24820880-36418,00.html
Some think it will be easy to reach a 60% reduction in emissions by 2050 and applaud Kev's modest targets of 5-15% reduction against 1990 by 2020. With enegry emissions growing at 1% a year just putting the brakes on and going for 0 growth will be great achievement let alone achieving a 1.5% reduction a year between now and 2050.
I'm waiting for Kyoto Kev to don the blue and red and with cape flying in the wind singlehandedly accomplish what no man has accomplished before, taking the Australian snout out of the energy trough |
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 12/28/08 10:36 am:
does anyone know?
it is self evident. a slowdown in the economy means less use of energy. Clarification/Follow-up by paraclete on 12/29/08 12:37 am:
ah, yes, I see what you say, with no effort George Bush has achieved wonders for the environment but at the same cost as making a real effort, unemployment. Unfortunately this solution will not work for everyone.
How do you achieve reductions without loss of economic output?, you have to turn your industries green, your buildings energy efficient and even energy producing, and a reduction in the waste line of the average person wouldn't go astray. Perhaps you could try a little stone age economics and buy goods and food produced locally and try walking or the bicycle. Somehow I don't think it will catch on this side of apocalypse
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