With the debate about the effects of global warming still raging, there is a sharper debate on about whether we can actually do much about it - even assuming that the negative effects are what some scientists claim.
Nowhere is this more sharply illustrated than in the reaction to Professor Ross Garnaut’s recent interim report on the levels at which Australia’s proposed emission trading scheme should be pitched.
Professor Garnaut has argued that there is no point in Australia setting ambitious targets because other countries, including big emitters like China are extremely unlikely to go along with such targets and therefore our actions would be essentially quixotic.
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