*SNORT* "Direct Action" Tony Abbott's Climate "Plan" - Guardian Compares To Name Of Cut-Rate Soap

Direct Action is the brand name of the freshly minted Australian Government policy to try and reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. But with a name that sounds more like a dodgy box of laundry powder, Australia’s “Direct Action” is unlikely to leave the country looking any cleaner or smelling any fresher in the climate change stakes.

That’s because instead of removing the many stubborn stains that fossil fuel use leaves on the planet’s climate systems, Australia’s box of Direct Action comes with added coal dust. How can it be seen otherwise when in the same week that Australia’s Senate passed the Direct Action legislation, the finance minister Mathias Cormann told parliament “coal is good”?

Cormann was responding to a question from Greens senator Larissa Waters who had pointed out that in India, coal burned in power plants was so good it was responsible for killing an estimated 80,000 to 115,000 people a year.

Cormann’s immediate response to this grim statistic was to smile and say “coal is good” before going on to tout the industry’s new public relations line that their product will bring prosperity to the world.

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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/oct/31/direct-action-is-like-a-dodgy-laundry-powder-that-never-gets-the-climate-clean