Thanks, Frantic. Loved the little ditty at the end. And that's pretty much how I read the situation as well. We don't know all that is needed to know as well as we should know. Consensus is rare among scientists and even rarer among politicians. Rarer still, among the people who idolise their politicians or their parties and think that Canberra's wisdom is infallible. They will watch their "saviour" walk on concrete and claim -black and blue- that they're walking on water! I know that my disposition towards this issue is a simplistic one and that what the government will do can have repercussions beyond my immediate little world; and I know that it's one thing to say "be cautious" and another thing altogether to move the whole capitalist system in one direction or another, (the euphemism for the word "capitalism" is "economy") so that I ought to be very weary of anything the govn't does which can cause extreme trauma without it being absolutely necessary. We need to be alert an alarmed when they go off too quickly and with inadequate circumspection. But, in the end, we have elected them with unprecedented mandate and, since I also am more afraid of the impact of inaction than that of the govnt's action, I will defer to their views. But I will go on checking what new developments I can understand, many of which I am made aware by the Greens and a couple of other oganisations on whose mailing list I am.
