Never has the old saying about politics and strange bedfellows been more accurate than in the wheeling and dealing over Kevin Rudd's effort to show off an ETS agreement at Copenhagen!Malcolm Turnbull has been going through hoops to drag his recalcitrant colleagues into line to negotiate an agreement to support... the government!
And why shouldn't they? The agreement has been neutered by its hopeless compromises to farmers and the energy lobby, and is now hardly worth the paper it's written on, in respect to what it will really contribute to cutting carbon emissions. Even the most dimwitted conservatives shouldn't be able to complain about that.
All the biggest polluters in the country will be rewarded for their (lobbying) efforts, while the citizen-at-large will be left to pay and pay and pay, and all towards reaching a minimal carbon reduction target which will have no impact on climate change in any meaningful timeframe.
So, while I sit back and smirk and sneer at the cosy Rudd/Wong/Turnbull/MacFarlane menage a quatre, I find myself in the same bunk as the Greens... and Wilson 'redneck' Tuckey... and Steve 'nutbag' Fielding... and Kevin 'racist pig' Andrews!
How can I sleep at night in that company?
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