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Well the point I was trying to make is the ineffectual intervention that our Governments conduct in dealing with this matter
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The longer and harder you look at government, the more you'll come to the realisation that they rarely, if ever, do anything. Most initiatives are aimed at placating the punters, at the same time as being as innefective as possible so as not to offend the real power brokers (big business).
Want some examples, the Tasmanian Government is setting up an EPA after just approving construction of the mother of all polluters,
a green wood waste power station attached to a massively polluting pulp mill (both Federal political parties jumped in to bed to approve this project without any proper environmental assesment).
Take this a step further. the powers the ACCC have regarding misleading advertising is a god example, the proponents of this project are running television ads, claiming the mill will produce "clean Green Power", why wasn't the advertising shut down.
Our PM talks big on CO2 reduction yet this monster will produce 800 times more CO2 than all the motor vehicles on our Tasmanian roads per annum.
Federal Labour are allowing an expansion of Uranium mining, do a bit of research on the uranium mining (
google Uranium mining problems) and extraction cycle, you'll find there are serious environmental issues with just digging the stuff out of the ground.
I'm sure that if you think about it there are many more examples where this is happening.
