Australia Repeals Carbon Tax

[DEAD7]

After almost a decade of heated political debate, Australia has become the world's first developed nation to repeal carbon laws that put a price on greenhouse gas emissions. In a vote that could highlight the difficulty in implementing additional measures to reduce carbon emissions ahead of global climate talks next year in Paris, Australia's Senate on Wednesday voted 39-32 to repeal a politically divisive carbon emissions price that contributed to the fall from power of three Australian leaders since it was first suggested in 2007.

 

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[Poitier]

fukk it. I'm down to be one of the last generations of homo-sapiens

 

[the cac mamba]

progressive

 

[Type Username Here]

In light of all the scientific evidence presented and nearly 97% consensus from experts, I fully expect the hand of free market to self-impose regulations in order not to contribute to human catastrophe and world devastation. I mean, what kind of business seeks to kill its own customer base and jeopardize their future earnings by doing something so harmful in the present? Surely they will put long term stability over short term profits.

 

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[DANKTHRONE]

Almost like puppets for natural resource extraction run the Australian government...

 

[Poitier]

Almost like puppets for natural resource extraction run the Australian government...

Its what happens when you vote in "conservatives"

 

[DEAD7]

Its what happens when you vote in "conservatives"

You really believe liberals arent part of the corporatism strangling the global economy...

 

[Poitier]

You really believe liberals arent part of the corporatism strangling the global economy...

Sure but Conservative engage in it at a higher rate and usually catalyze legislation

 

[DEAD7]

Sure but Conservative engage in it at a higher rate and usually catalyze legislation

I think they play equal, but different roles in the f*ckery.

 

[DANKTHRONE]

Conservative prime minister, climate change denier, and accused misogynist Tony Abbott was elected in September. He started working as the nation’s leader almost immediately, but he had to wait until this month for newly elected senators to take their seats. Abbott’s (conservative) Liberal party still doesn’t control the Senate, but it has found Senate allies in a powerful party that was founded just last year by kooky mining magnate Clive Palmer. Palmer held a press conference with Al Gore last month to announce that he opposed some of Abbott’s climate-wrecking policies, and that he wanted a carbon-trading program to replace the carbon tax. That now seems to have been smokestacks and mirrors. When it came to repealing Australia’s $US23.50 per metric ton carbon tax, the immodestly named Palmer United Party fell into line on Thursday, helping the repeal pass the Senate by a vote of 39 to 32, without demanding the establishment of any alternative.

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[CHL]

Disgusting. Tony Abbot is the worst PM we have had in decades.