Letter to the Editor (or an opinion piece)
Watts Up With That?
8th November 2011 (Australia time)
Back towards the Dark Ages
The passage of the carbon tax bills today is no reason for celebration. It is a step back towards the dark ages.
Just a few generations ago, humans lived in a “green” world. There was no coal, oil or gas providing light, heat, transport and traction power.
In this green utopia, wood provided heat for cooking fires and forests were felled for charcoal for primitive metallurgy; farmers used wooden ploughs and harvested grain with sickles and flails; the nights were lit using candles and whale oil; rich people used wind and water power to grind cereals; horses and bullocks moved coaches, wagons and troops; there was no refrigeration and salt was the only preservative for meat.
Towns were tiny as the whole family was needed to work the farm. For most people, the daylight hours were filled with heavy labour to produce, preserve and transport food. There was no surplus to support opera, bureaucracy or academia.
Humanity was relieved from this life of unrelenting toil by carbon energy – steam engines and electricity, machines, tractors, cars, ships and planes. Prosperity and longevity soared.
Today the pagan green religion celebrates the first step in their long campaign to destroy industrial society and reduce population.
They should be careful what they wish for.
For example, just a few more bitter winters in Britain will see their wind powered lights going out.
A British observer once said of the Whitlam government: “Any fool can bugger up Britain, but it takes real genius to bugger up Australia” “.
Parliament today showed the sort of genius needed to dim the lights in the lucky country.
Viv Forbes,
Rosewood Qld Australia
I am happy for my email address to be published.
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Is that not just what Juliar, “No Carbon Tax on my watch” plans for all, Maximum disruption plus its a tax on emissions not fuel. So my point is if he has the get up and go to face his workers, surely he should also lay down the Gauntlet for the “No carbon tax on my watch” woman.
Bernd Felsche says:
November 8, 2011 at 9:15 am
I’m considering pulling up the tent pegs and moving overseas, to where hard work, honesty, initiative and common sense gets just rewards.
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Hmmm…when you find such a place, do let us know where it is…
Gail Combs says:
November 7, 2011 at 5:49 pm
[Actually, I’m not sure who said this]
In the 1960s in NE Ohio our cars lasted about 5 years and 83,000 miles before the salt rusted out the body.
My current car, a Saturn SL2, is 12 years old, has 305,000 miles on it, and has a few rust spots on the hood. A lot of minor things are wearing out, but the motor and transmission are original and good for a while longer.
In one of the earliest posts, Fred from Canuckistan wrote: “lots of people in Connecticut are living in Earth Day meets Groundhog Day right now. Wonder how happy they are to be living “green” ?”
Personally, I spent five days without power. Today, ten days after the storm, more than 12,000 families are still without electricity. Is everyone unhappy? Of course. But does anyone draw a connection between their present situation and the inescapable consequences of abandoning electric power generation? Absolutely not.
I can tell you from first hand experience that no one I’ve talked with can understand that this experience will become commonplace within a decade or two. Connecticut gets half of its baseline electric generation from the Millstone III nuclear power plant, which is already well beyond its design life. The entire long term energy “plan” of the Connecticut legislature comes down to an assumption that Millstone III will keep generating forever. In the meantime, there is no realistic planning for the decade after the nuke has to be shut down eventually.
What was unsurprising but nevertheless arrogant to the extreme was the Greens leader’s reponse to the passing of the legislation:
‘Greens leader Bob Brown insisted it was an historic day for Australia and the seven billion people on the planet.
“What we are doing here today is legislating … to hold back the great nemesis of climate change for the whole future of humanity and indeed our millions of fellow species on this planet,“ he said to cheers from the public gallery.’
Source: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/11476302/carbon-tax-to-become-law/
Aren’t you glad we Aussies are here to save the world?
BTW Anthony, Matt was not implying you are a drunk, “fair suck of the sav” (or sauce bottle) is just another variant of “fair go” and has nothing to do with booze, unless your mate is hogging it all perhaps.
http://www.propertyobserver.com.au/news/industrial-to-face-lesser-carbon-tax-impact-than-offices-goldman-sachs/2011071350786
OT perhaps, but an interesting comment IMO. I can tell you last night in Sydney here in Australia was VERY humid and sticky.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/sydney-swelters-through-sticky-night-20111110-1n82w.html
From the article…
“The daytime heat has been hanging around into the night for the past couple of days because of a high pressure system in the Tasman Sea, putting extra moisture to the air.
“Extra moisture in the air means that temperatures stay warm overnight,” she said.”
Is this confirmation moisture/water vapour IS the main warming driver in the atmosphere?
Fair dinkum, Anthony, someone needs to set you straight on Strine. I’ve just tipped some cash into your PayPal account so you can click over to Amazon.com and buy yourself a copy of Lets Stalk Strine by Afferbeck Lauder. Emma Chisit? My $20 should cover it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0725406011/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&qid=1320899997&sr=1-1&condition=used
Look forward to some entertaining posts…
Drongo….should be Let Stalk Strine.
Hm, my understanding was that you only talked Strine if you didn’t know any better …
>:p
Hey Aussie Greens, I’ve got some Solyndra stock here that might interest you.