...AND ANOTHER THING
The Age
Wednesday December 16, 2009
ATTENTION Tony Abbott €” the great new tax isn't a threat, it's a promise. I, for one, would pay anything to secure my granddaughter a future on this planet. Ingrid Benedict, Eltham ClimateTO WHAT depths can Australian politics sink? While 198 countries strive to cope with climate change, Tony Abbott is almost chortling with glee at the prospect of the talks failing. Come on, Coalition €” show some statesmanship.Jim Banks, YarrawongaDON'T be an Abbottosaurus about global warming, support action to fix it.John Barry, CroydonAHA. It all becomes clear. Staunch Catholic Tony Abbott is waiting for the imminent canonisation of Mary MacKillop. She will then perform a third miracle €” a climate change policy that involves no real action.Mike Puleston, BrunswickIF, ACCORDING to Angela Crocombe (Letters, 15/12), 100,000 Australians walked the walk on global warming last weekend, then about 20,900,000 Australians didn't. If the walk was designed to show overwhelming support for climate change action then, based on these figures, surely it failed?Ian Fraser, Mount DandenongNOTE to Penny Wong €” taking action against climate change means replacing coal with renewables (such as baseload solar thermal), not hiding emissions in dodgy offsets while you wait around to see if clean coal works.Patrick Hearps, Fitzroy NorthCLIMATE change; forget it. Population of the world in 2000, about 6 billion. 2050, about 9 billion; end of story.Stuart Young, SorrentoUNTIL politicians begin to ask how the environment can accommodate economics, rather than how economics can accommodate the environment, a sustainable future will never be realised.Will Hardiker, ThornburyPoliticsYES, the Coalition frontbench certainly is reminiscent of Basil and friends (Letters, 15/12). The only difference is that Fawlty Towers was funny.Maureen Goldie, Blackwood, SANO DOUBT about Barnaby Joyce, he is an interesting character. When he talks, you listen, then have a good laugh.Noel Howard, HeathmontMAYBE Silvio Berlusconi should take some tips from George Bush on ducking and weaving.Bryan Fraser, St KildaElsewhereWHY did The Age headline read "State failing girl" (14/12)? "Five men rape child" should be front and centre, the cause for disgust.Margaret Ryan, North CaulfieldISN'T it great to see so much "golf" on the front pages of the papers. Better than all that tawdry other news.Andrew Cameron, Newstead, TasWHAT'S a rapacious Third-World company like Gunns doing in a nice First-World country like this?Warwick Sprawson, Brunswick
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