Thursday 16 October 2008

Skippy, the bush kangaroo tucker

Got to love those overseas headlines about the "Australia's Stern," Ross Garnaut himself, who has been known to say some fairly uninformed things in his time:

Australians 'should eat kangaroo' in fight against climate change (this one's my favourite)
Australians urged to eat kangaroo
Eating kangaroos could help fight global warming: scientist
A baaa-d idea? Aussie sheep made to wear gas masks so scientists can see how their breath can affect climate (Or maybe just a really baaa-d joke...)

And some amusing Australian responses:

A few roos loose in Garnaut's top paddock? (this one cracks me up - the expression is "a few roos loose in the top paddock," slang, meaning not all there)
Eat kangas, not cows says Garnaut
Up and down like kangaroo futures

In short: Farmers laugh off scientist's roo muster idea

The thing is...he actually said it.

Yeah, like that's ever going to happen.

I'm also trying to prove him wrong in my climate change essay, about how Australia shouldn't wait for an "international agreement" that may never come to dictate their carbon emission cuts, but should take the lead for once and act now, knowing that Australia has a lot to lose from the impact of climate change.

I'm not sure which side of the fence I fall, though. I mean, Australian emissions cuts mean nothing if economies like the States and China just keeping on pumping out GHGs.* On the other hand, every little bit counts, right? And action is better than no action. Unless, of course, it's expensive and it's not really making any impact. But any change for the future is good, isn't it, that brings us closer to zero emissions by 2050?

x
JAG

*GHGs = the new CFCs; that's greenhouse gases.

3 comments:

jacques du'loque said...

Yes, Australia's cut in carbon emissions won't be as significant as, say, China's and America's. However, they will still be significant. Australia's a developed country that pumps out quite a few GHGs. If you guys cut your emissions, even a little bit, it would still be a little bit less fuel to the problem.

Come on, J. Or should I say... wait, no, then you wouldn't publish this post.

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