no not really...

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/04/australians_con.php

All Johnny 'f*** the environment!' Howard cares about is the cold hard $

Aussies concerned about environment?

Nope.

If we really cared we'd be building nuclear powerplants.

right

nuclear > coal.

what

That's all _you_ have to say about such an important issue?

That article seems to be a vague rambling rant. If the author had heard of paragraphs it might have been a little easier to follow. I don't really see what his point is.

Australians (and people in general, I think) have started to become much more environmentally aware now that petrol prices are so much higher. I do think the government needs to step the f*** up and take some more responsibility - if the US goverment is going to spend $howevermany billion dollars on energy wars in the Middle East then they're obviously not prepared to do anything useful to promote growth in renewable energy systems.

I'd be happy to see nuclear power plants in Australia - I'd much rather we use them (assuming we do something responsible with the wastes) than keep burning coal, which has effects that by now are pretty well documented. Pebble reactors sound like the bizomb and China is obviously jumping on the bandwagon to help back up their energy production.

I'd like to see the Australian government giving tax incentives to big companies that are doing pro-environmental stuff (and mmmmmmmmassive fines for being jerks) - I saw an ad for Honda the other day, for every car they put on the street in Australia they're planting like 10 trees or something to help soak up the CO2. I thought that was cool.

are greenhouse gases really the problem that greenies say they are? this crazy rooski sez 'no way comrade!'. i also read not so long ago (but now i cant find the url) that data collected from a particular shale deposit showed that CO2 levels may have been up to 3X todays levels due to massive volcanic activity... not this pissy 'balance' that the greenies love to theorise about... 3 frikn times! and the enviroment seems to have recovered just fine all on it's own. :D

i think this article doesn't discriminate properly between global & local enviromental issues. australians always seem more concerned about local issues such as natural rainforest conservation & the like rather than global such as greenhouse gases, the ozone, etc.

Why bother worrying, it's too late and we're all f***ed. Just sit back and enjoy the ride.

i think this article doesn't discriminate properly between global & local enviromental issues. australians always seem more concerned about local issues such as natural rainforest conservation & the like rather than global such as greenhouse gases, the ozone, etc.

Yeh, that's basically true of just about everyone that is still clinging onto useless nationalistic ideals. We need a good ole fashioned alien invasion so we can get our priorities right.

as part of the middle east war budget something like 200 billion is going into alternative fuel sources... that is why there is all of a sudden a raft of new hybrid cars from US car manufactures... all the major makers now have advanced hybrid designs driving around the streets

hybrid cars are boring

no you're just too cool for them mr forum hero.

All cars are boring - cars that don't suck for the environment are the least boring ones out there.

so its ok to burn coal ,which kills more people weekly than nuclear power has total,coal ash releases radioactive materials ,then all the greenhouses and other pollution it produces.

coal ash releases radioactive materials

thats just not true, it never enters the atmosphere.

i was tryin to point out that coal ash has low concentrations of radioactive materails but no one freaks out about it .consider the amount of coal burnt compared nuclear fuel.

I wish I could live on the same planet as you, demon.