- Posted by Ad astra on July 26, 2009
How many, other than those steeped in environmental science, have a clear idea about what is entailed in the Government’s CPRS? Ordinary people could be forgiven for feeling that they are flying through thick climate change fog in an ill-defined direction towards an uncertain destination, with the flight crew being harangued by reluctant passengers, some wanting to turn back because they never wanted to embark in the first place, with others wanting to continue but in a different albeit hazy direction.
The CPRS to be presented to the Senate on 13 August has been described as a dog, a deeply flawed scheme, a pointless exercise that will make a negligible difference to environmental pollution. Such generic descriptors do nothing to clarify what has always been, and increasingly is confusing to the average citizen. Words like ‘deeply flawed’ or the canine metaphor are singularly unhelpful. More...