The Gillard/Green coalition aims to cut Australia's carbon dioxide emissions by 5-25% from 2000 levels by 2020 in spite of a rising population. This can NEVER be actually achieved without massive economic dislocation and contraction.
The real plan is to achieve a fake reduction by forcing Australian companies to pay billions of dollars via hungry carbon traders to foreign carbon credit sharks for promises to cut their production of carbon dioxide.
In most cases, this will NOT result in any reductions. At best it will produce largely worthless promises to not increase emissions in future. At worst it will be a fraud on Australian taxpayers and consumers.
Mainly it will result in massive transfers of declining Australian wealth to foreign carbon shysters for zero climate benefit.
Viv Forbes
Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, has spent his life working in exploration, mining, farming, infrastructure, financial analysis and political commentary. He has worked for government departments, private companies and now works as a private contractor and farmer.
Viv has also been a guest writer for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Queensland and mining newspapers. He was awarded the “Australian Adam Smith Award for Services to the Free Society” in 1988, and has written widely on political, technical and economic subjects.
