state i'm in: just a little light headed from last night.
tune: jamiroquai "canned heat".
the CSIRO's recommended target for emissions reduction by 2050:
60%-90% on current levels.
the australian greens' recomended target for emissions reduction 2050:
80% on 2000 levels.
the ALP's recommended target for emissions reduction by 2050:
60% on 2000 levels.
australian of the year tim flannery's receommendation:
all austraian political parties should adopt significant emissions reduction targets.
the CSIRO also sites many economic studies that suggest that drastic emissions reduction will slow economic growth only very slightly, with the australian economy still set to double by 2040 with the said emissions reductions. the liberal party's resonse to these recommendations from political parties, scientific bodies, and environmental experts? that these are "crazy' pledges that will incur economic costs that they are not willing to bear. very myopic, people.
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illustration: ron tandberg
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What use is an economy when the world is useless? We can travel to other planets, the moon and trash those places as well?
I think it's a bit like running away from the problem: yourselves... (which includes me). Humans are so stupid. It's just in economics we were talking about, studying, "rational expectations". I made a comment about how if humans were perfectly rational there wouldn't be any "problems", we would basically be Gods. People in my class just glared at me - mind you I was wearing a Rosary wristband.
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