Australia to ban incandescent bulbs

Jeanie

A Surprise Left wrote:

How could we sign the kyoto protocol and then set about getting the protocol changed? You don't sign a treaty and then after the fact, set about getting the treaty changed. You either think its a good idea to sign or you do not, there is no option to sign it purely for goodwill purposes and yet have no desire to follow through with the treaty's intention. Am I missing something here? Instead of worrying about stupid treaties how about taking some real action and reducing our carbon emissions? We could start by reducing our dependence on oil and fuel more cars via ethanol. We could vastly improve our public transport systems, particulary in the outer suburbs of Melbourne for instance. Forget about the stupid treaty......

Things change all the time ASL. It's not like politicians don't move the goal posts at every opportunity. It is a unifying document intent on getting the world to look at climate change together. And it's been around for yonks! In all the time it has been about, has the government ever said, we don't like this we need this, this and this, to be added or amended and then we'll sign? Nope! Don't recall that. Because they never had any intention of signing. Fine don't sign it. BUT don't then expect that your constituents will ever trust you to be fair and reasonable when it comes to the environment. Kyoto is world stage. And Johnny fluffed his lines over and over. Don't expect the world to look to you as a leader when it comes to the environment either. He won't go to all the trouble of reducing our countries dependence on oil because he's not really interested. No money in it for him, or power or whatever it is he covets.