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Moral Challenge Is To Build A Prosperous, Secure Land

24 April 2007

Australia emits less green-house gases in a year than the United States or China emit in a month. Do we need to lower carbon emissions over time? Of course we do. But to say climate change is the overwhelming moral challenge for this generation of Australians is misguided at best; misleading at worst. It de-legitimises other challenges over which we do have significant control. It feeds ideological demands for knee-jerk policy reactions that would destroy jobs and the living standards of ordinary ..... read full story