What is the ETS?
ETS stands for Emissions Trading Scheme, which means that companies will have to pay for credits to create pollution.
Why?
To combat climate change caused by man-made carbon emissions. The idea is if companies have to pay to pollute they will pollute less; the climate will stop changing and baby polar bears will live to become big polar bears allowing them to scavenge through Alaskan rubbish tips.
But companies pollute because they make things or produce power. How will they be able to keep providing us with their important products and services?
This is the smart bit. They will pay the ETS and the government will give them the money back so they can continue what they’re doing to protect jobs and working families. At the same time they will pass the ETS costs to the consumer which means some polluting companies and industries will be better off under an ETS despite not actually reducing their carbon footprint.
That’s sounds ridiculous!
That’s your interpretation, but at least the government will look like it’s doing something to stop climate change.
But will an ETS stop climate change? Surely once the Antarctic sheds millions of tons of ice and sea levels rise there’s not much we can do to stop it. It’s like trying to stop a freight train with a wet kipper.
You know, for a dummy you’re quite the smart arse! Listen, this isn’t about stopping climate change it’s about feeling good that we’re doing our best without having to actually give up anything that causes pollution. We’ll still use electricity and drive cars, but we’ll do it safe in the knowledge that it really gives conservatives the shits.
You’re a deranged lefty idiot. This isn’t about climate change at all, it’s about idealism.
Oh dear, is that the time… ?
#1 by Toaf on 24 November 2009 - 9:46 pm
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It’s funny cos it’s true.
#2 by Chade on 25 November 2009 - 10:47 am
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Or rather, it’s not funny cos it’s true?
#3 by Mr Pastry on 25 November 2009 - 2:08 pm
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ETS is for dummies as you suggest
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#4 by Joseph on 8 July 2011 - 11:57 am
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ETS is another tax. It is equal to putting up the GST to 12.5% which would be unacceptable and produce an outcry.
Read the following analogy and you will realize the insignificance of carbon dioxide as a weather controller.
Pass on to all in your address book including politicians and may be they will listen to their constituents, rather than vested interests which stand to gain by the ETS.
Here’s a practical way to understand Julia Gillard’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
Imagine 1 kilometre of atmosphere and we want to get rid of the carbon pollution in it created by human activity. Let’s go for a walk along it.
The first 770 metres are Nitrogen.
The next 210 metres are Oxygen.
That’s 980 metres of the 1 kilometre.
20 metres to go.
The next 10 metres are water vapour.
10 metres left.
9 metres are argon.
Just 1 more metre.
A few gases make up the first bit of that last metre.
The last 38 centimetres of the kilometre – that’s carbon dioxide.
A bit over one foot.
97% of that is produced by Mother Nature.
It’s natural.
Out of our journey of one kilometre, there are just 12 millimetres left.
Just over a centimetre – about half an inch.
That’s the amount of carbon dioxide that global human activity puts into the atmosphere.
And of those 12 millimetres Australia puts in 0.18 of a millimetre.
Less than the thickness of a hair. Out of a kilometre!
As a hair is to a kilometre – so is Australia ‘s contribution to what Julia Gillard calls Carbon Pollution.
Imagine Brisbane’s new Gateway Bridge, ready to be opened by Julia Gillard. It’s been polished, painted and scrubbed by an army of workers till its 1 kilometre length is surgically clean. Except that Julia Gillard says we have a huge problem, the bridge is polluted – there’s a human hair on the roadway. We’d laugh ourselves silly.
There are plenty of real pollution problems to worry about.
It’s hard to imagine that Australia ‘s contribution to carbon dioxide in the world’s atmosphere is one of the more pressing ones. And I can’t believe that a new tax on everything is the only way to blow that pesky hair away.
Pass this on quickly while the ETS is being debated in Federal Parliament.
#5 by Spock... on 9 July 2011 - 5:52 pm
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Fucking LOL
#6 by cosmicjester on 16 July 2011 - 10:25 pm
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I love day release programs
#7 by Python on 21 July 2011 - 8:29 am
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cosmicjester – you love day release?? How often do they let you out??
#8 by cosmicjester on 23 July 2011 - 6:57 pm
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“How often do they let you out??”
*badum tish*