Just a Touch of Green

In Queensland, ALP Premier Bligh is intent on luring the world's jet setters to board aircraft, cruise ships, trains, limos, buses and cars to come to the Gold Coast Games, burning lots of carbon fuels.

But in Honolulu, PM Gillard, leader of the ALP/Green Coalition, has urged our APEC Pacific neighbours to reduce their usage of carbon fuels and turn back to the BC era (before carbon) when tourists used wind powered sailing clippers, solar powered hay burners and muscle powered rickshaws. One politician looks to a bright carbon-powered future – the other yearns for a dreary carbon-free past. Shows what political schizophrenia can be induced with just a touch of Green.

Viv Forbes——Bio and Archives

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.