Its all well and good and very noble for Australia to be a world leader on this matter so others can follow by example...... and have 14 year olds mass protest about it. But until this problem is recognised as a global one, and the complexities of it being a global one are addressed then the 14 year olds should have their butts firmly glued to their seats in class. And if not, they should be sent on camps to third world countries to see how many shyt holes there are in this world and how difficult life is for most on this planet.
Australia is incredibly naive and I don't mean that in a bad way. Another poster talked about population growth and the developing world with respect to carbon emissions. Couldn't agree more and this issue doesn't seem to be getting discussed and incorporated into the ideological solutions that are being presented to solve the climate change problem. Try explaining to folk in the third world who support their families for $2 per day that their lives are about to get even harder. Look what is happening in a first world nation like France atm about fuel taxes. Imagine what will happen if the poorest start getting hit. It wont be the rich in these overpopulated third world nations, it will be the poor.
Climate change is only a problem to those in the first world which ironically has industrialised and developed on the back of burning fossil fuels. And now the first world will try and stop the third world from doing the same? This is going to go down well.............. not.
The solutions being presented to climate change are ideological.
