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So what about other countries like Kuwait, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab emirates? Why is Australia getting singled out for this anyway, or atleast Australia is the only one doing anything about it. We could have switched to nuclear power back in 2007 but the greenies didnt let us thats how close it was to fruition.

It makes sense to go nuclear instead of imposing a carbon tax. I dont believe in man made climate change atm. This is a tax imposed on us even though the priminister said she woudlnt do it. It infuriates me on every level.
 
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Per capita loses meaning as you get to either extreme. Ridiculously large populations like China and India can hide issues while ridiculously small populations like Aruba get hammered. There are a variety of ways the data can be parsed, each with some validity and some holes, so getting tremendously excited about a single parsing, particularly without noting the various blindspots of that choice, shows an agenda.

The UN picked a parsing that made America look as bad as possible. Imagine that. Not saying we're saints over here by any stretch, but look for the agenda.
 
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Damian Mahadevan said:
So what about other countries like Kuwait, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab emirates? Why is Australia getting singled out for this anyway, or atleast Australia is the only one doing anything about it.
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Trinidad isn't singled out because their BNP is much lower than that of Australia. Kuwait and UAE isn't singled out because they're not considered part of the west (nor do they have as much pepole as Australia living there), I'd imagine.

Not that I know anything of Australia being singled out.

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Oz has about 22 million people in a country about the same size as the US.
 
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Damian, Australia isn't getting singled out... All countries who signed several treaties like the Kyoto Protocols try to find ways to reduce pollution. Australia decided that carbon taxing would be a good way. In Israel they're installing the first electric car network in the world. In the UK they're building some of the biggest windfarms in the world. In Saudi Arabia, they're building the biggest solar farm in the world.

Australia could have done many things, and they have. They've done some cheap things like putting bikes in city centres that you can just use. They have been giving incentives to build better insulated houses (I think) and so on and in addition to that they're introducing a carbon tax.
 
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I agree but what about China and America? They have the most total output of carbon emissions and they arent doign a thing about it are they? It seems silly to me.
 
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Damian Mahadevan said:
I agree but what about China and America? They have the most total output of carbon emissions and they arent doign a thing about it are they? It seems silly to me.
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India should be on that list too. And I suspect those two nations are too powerful for anyone official to challenge them. Which does indeed suck, but that's not an excuse for the rest of us to not do our job.

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Damian Mahadevan said:
I agree but what about China and America? They have the most total output of carbon emissions and they arent doign a thing about it are they? It seems silly to me.
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Nope, you should read more before making statements.

One google search (for : "US investments in renewables") and the second link gave me this : http://arstechnica.com/science/news...loping-world-as-it-tops-nuclear-in-the-us.ars
The article debunks both through this :

Led by China's renewable push, the world is now on a trajectory that will see its investments in renewable electricity surpass those in fossil fuels within a year or two. As a result of these investments, the US is now producing more renewable energy than nuclear power.
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The US, despite seeing a jump of 60 percent, still trailed far behind, with only about $25 billion in these investments. That would be enough to put the US in second place, at least until small-scale distributed solar is considered.
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However, I never thought the general public would elect such people to represent us. I truly hope the lesson is learned.
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If I interpret today's results correctly, you might be lucky and a majority has learned the lesson?
 
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bkrueger said:
If I interpret today's results correctly, you might be lucky and a majority has learned the lesson?
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I'm very, very happy with the result - but I would have liked a greater majority on the red side. Way too many supporters of greed and selfishness.

Also, the party I support (Socialistisk Folkeparti) had a pretty big setback, but that's ok.

All in all, I feel much better living here already - even if I'm not naive enough to think things will magically change for the better in the short-term.

But at least the heart is back, and that's a big thing for me.
 
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Never have I felt so much loathing for my own government. It's bad… really bad.

How the heck did we get to be so selfish?

Sigh.
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Are you really selfish if you are implementing sharia-law to please your immigrants?

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http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/article1617864.ece
http://rahmispossu.net/2011/09/11/sharia-pommi-tikittaa-tanskassa/

Note the source is "extrabladet" and I dont speak the language good so Im not sure if its all true. I just found the newsitem interesting.
 
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