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Carbon price is ‘business friendly’ – far from being a communist plot

Global warming, a communist plot? Business Spectator:  Tristan Edis , 6 Mar 2012   “….. within Australia, climate change science has become tarred as a cause of the left rather than an objective physical phenomenon. Attempts to use a price signal or a market in carbon permits to control the problem, one of the least communist ways of controlling emissions, are represented as the end of the world as we know it. We are told to expect mass job losses, a deep economic recession, the lights going out and even the loss of our democratic freedoms.

Some of this hysteria is clearly the product of public relations exercises by cold, calculating firms looking after their own self
interest, ….
For many of them climate change is seen through the lens of a broader battle against the left’s attempts to curtail achievement of their vision. This is perhaps best personified by someone like Hugh Morgan, former head of Western Mining and president of the Business Council of Australia. Morgan has been a major driver of Australia’s resources industry and has led fights on industrial relations, Aboriginal land rights, and other constraints on development of minerals resources.

When climate change emerged as a major problem in the 90s, Morgan was quick to act with the establishment of the Lavoissier Institute.

This association of climate change with broader causes of the left has been incredibly unfortunate. It means we now have a significant and incredibly influential segment of the business community that is almost irrational in its approach to government policies to control greenhouse gas emissions. Using a price signal or carbon permit market to control greenhouse gas emissions would be the most business friendly way of controlling our greenhouse gas emissions. It should not be seen as some kind of communist plot. http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/climate-change-communist-plot-Nick-Minchin-politic-pd20120305-S492K?opendocument&src=rss

March 6, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, spinbuster