5pc target a global embarrassment: Greens

"Green groups have given an angry response to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's announcement on Australia's climate change targets."

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"Greens Senator Christine Milne says the emissions reduction targets are extremely
weak and disappointing.

"This is a complete failure of a system," she said.

"Five per cent is a global embarrassment, 15 per cent is way below even the minimum the rest of the world wants to see."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/15/2446577.htm


It IS an embarrassment, and it's also an idiotic pandering to the mining industries and business.
Yes, we have to be able to continue to trade in coal, but what politicians and business magnates
don't understand is that you can't do deals with the planet. All the rationalising of their
position isn't going to stop global warming. And while the worst polluters in the country are
wringing their hands over what it will cost to meet even these paltry emissions targets, the Great
Barrier Reef will die.

And that's something the Australian GP can identify with; when it has died and turned brown, it's
Kevin Rudd who will be blamed.

Rudd's a dud when it comes to this issue, and being the most important important issue, he's lost any chance of regaining what little support I had for him in general before this.