| Darwin's Origin of Species when first published was | | | | itself is unlikely to pick up the cause and start |
| ridiculed by the church and people alike by the | | | | developing a new industry. Instead the government |
| implication than Man (seen as a divine being by many | | | | must now consider using a carrot to incentivise |
| groups) had descended from the same linage as the | | | | industry to start the process moving. The world will |
| Ape and Chimpanzee. After 160 years the debate | | | | stop buying coal and Australian carbon based |
| continues with the views expressed by so many over | | | | manufacturing and production will be penalised by |
| Climate Change and its implication. Whether we believe | | | | carbon taxes imposed by other countries. Without the |
| or don't believe in Climate Change should not be the | | | | Australian Government promoting and supporting new |
| debate. The world momentum has changed and as a | | | | cleaner technologies we are slipping on the world |
| result every country will move from carbon based | | | | rankings and will be replaced by those countries that |
| energy dependence to a non-carbon one over time. | | | | are fitter and more capable of change. |
| As Bill Clinton said, the Stone Age didn't stop for lack | | | | Australia with all its sun light has led the world in Solar |
| of stones! | | | | research and in particular PV based technologies. |
| The Australian Prime Minister, Mr Kevin Rudd after | | | | About 40% of the Chinese Solar Industry C level |
| trying to get through legislation has decided to give up | | | | executives were trained in Australia. Yet, Australia |
| and delay any further debate on ETS for a few years. | | | | doesn't have a solar industry. The industry instead is |
| Yet again Australian industry and the people of the | | | | now driven out of Germany or China based on |
| country face uncertainty and as a result investment | | | | technology originally developed by Australian |
| has dried up. The ETS was a catalyst for investment | | | | Universities, but not commercialised. Australia is the |
| by industry to develop clean technologies and change | | | | driest nation on the planet. Water management and |
| behaviours. With it now placed in limbo, industry | | | | policy are world leading and yet many other nations |
| commitment has gone the same way. Australia must | | | | are catching up with Israel, Nederlands and Singapore |
| commit to entering this new era and start investment | | | | beating a path to the world. |
| in non-carbon based technologies for energy. The | | | | Australia needs to be taking the imitative and using |
| Carbon based Industrial period is coming to an end. To | | | | innovation since as a nation it will suffer the most from |
| continue to support coal in the long term is just sheer | | | | a change in carbon economics. Darwin was right about |
| stupidity and industry will go the way of the dinosaur. | | | | the survival of the fittest: Australia, it would appear is |
| Sadly, without the stick imposed by an ETS, industry | | | | destined for extinction! |