Tag: Emissions Trading Scheme
Labor and the carbon tax: will they or won’t they?
Posted by John, October 29th, 2013 - under Revolution.
Tags: ALP, Australian Labor Party, Capitalism, Carbon tax, Climate change, Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS
Comments: 1
It looks to me as if profit and competition are the barriers to addressing climate change. If that is the case then only a democratic revolution of workers to run society to satisfy human need can address climate change. As the banners at some environmental demonstrations and eco-socialist conferences say ‘System Change, not Climate Change.’
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The Greens’ renewable energy fantasies go up in smoke
Posted by John, August 28th, 2012 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Carbon tax, Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS, European Union
Comments: 1
The abandonment of the proposed floor price from the Australian ETS scheduled to start in 2015 is a political, not an environmental, decision. It means the Gillard government can say we are on track to be part of a global market in permits, although that market will do little or nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if the price remains low. The neoliberal Greens have sold us yet another market dud.
The carbon tax: a descent into hell or the new utopia?
Posted by John, November 9th, 2011 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Carbon tax, Emissions Trading Scheme
Comments: 1
Capitalism can’t and won’t plan for the future survival of the planet. We workers can. But to do that we have to democratically organise production to satisfy human need, not to make a polluting profit. That’s a revolution.
The battlers’ buffer or the battlers’ bluffer?
Posted by John, June 27th, 2011 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Battlers' buffer, Carbon tax, Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS
Comments: 6
So what is all this talk about a battler’s buffer for the carbon tax? Small details like the actual carbon price and the amount of the compensation could be weeks away. But the Gillard Government’s approach is pretty clear. The carbon tax won’t cost us anything. In fact in terms of money 3 million Australians – […]
Polluters the big winners from Emissions Trading Scam
Posted by John, December 18th, 2009 - under Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, The Greens, The Liberals.
Tags: Australian politics, Emissions Trading Scheme, Environment, Global Warming
Comments: 3
‘The Liberal Party is currently led by people whose conviction on climate change is that it is ‘crap’ and you don’t need to do anything about it. Any policy that is announced will simply be a con, an environmental fig leaf to cover a determination to do nothing.’ – deposed Liberal Party leader […]
Just what is an emissions trading scheme?
Posted by John, December 7th, 2009 - under Socialism.
Tags: Australian politics, Capitalism, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Copenhagen climate summit, Emissions Trading Scheme
Comments: none
To save the planet from global warming requires removing profit as the driving force of production, the driving force of a humanity on the road to the environmental abyss.
Labor’s Emissions Trading Scheme again – why February?
Posted by John, December 3rd, 2009 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Australian politics, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Emissions Trading Scheme, Global Warming
Comments: 3
Labor is going to re-introduce the recently Senate rejected Emissions Trading Scheme Bill in February. What is going on? Let me hazard a guess. After the Liberal Party on Tuesday replaced Malcolm Turnbull with Tony Abbott, the Senate yesterday rejected the Labor-Turnbull Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. Then it rejected the original Labor ETS, the one without the extra […]
Tony Abbott: the anti-Santamaria
Posted by John, December 1st, 2009 - under Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, The Liberals, Tony Abbott.
Tags: ALP, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Bob Santamaria, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Catholic church, Emissions Trading Scheme
Comments: 1
That’s the bind for the Liberals. How do they win back the support of the ruling class as a class? Certainly voting against the ETS won’t do that.
Green jobs: not uranium and bombs
Posted by Bill, July 18th, 2009 - under Nuclear power, Peter Garrett, Uranium mining.
Tags: Australian Workers Union, Big business, BLF, Cap and trade, Capitalism, CFMEU, Climate change, Emissions Trading Scheme, Environment, Global Warming, Green bans, Green energy, Green jobs
Comments: 3
Union green bans on environmentally suspect developments show the potential the working class has to create a green future and green jobs.
Why Kevin Rudd is heating up the planet
Posted by Bill, June 19th, 2009 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: A voice for the voiceless, Capitalism, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Class struggle, Climate change, Emissions Trading Scheme, Environment, Fighting back, Global Warming
Comments: none
Under socialism we’d transform the economy to one fuelled by renewable energy, and we’d have to make sure that everyone was well served by fast and efficient public transport also run on renewable energy.