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OT - new carbon tax 4-Mar-2011 At 12:04:00 PM Gavo

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On 4/03/2011 gordoste wrote:
>If we don't do anything, China and India can say "We are devoting our
>resources to improve our people's quality of life, and fully developed
>countries like Australia who use much more carbon per person aren't doing
>anything. Why should we?" If we take strong steps then our chances of getting
>India and China to do something are much improved.

I think China gets a bit of a bad wrap on this actually. They used to be very anti-change but have changed their stance and I do not think this is known very well. They are actually taking massive steps at reducing their emissions. They are commiting to reductions of 40-45% and have already started doing things like closing down heavily polluting factories.

Im not saying anyones right or wrong, just this is again, where I think we are not always current on the situation.

China are actually being very ambitious though and are presently leading the world on reducing the carbon emissions with their plan (so I hear at least).

source: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2011/3101365.htm