Farm emission plan announced, expect to pay more for your food...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

So, because there are heaps more murders elsewhere, it's okay for us to just off each other? The 'they're doing worse' argument is childish, and ill considered. It doesn't mean we get a free ride. Climate change is underway, it is man made, and every human being is going to be affected by it. Some a great deal more than others. We won't get off lightly, to even think we might is just magical thinking. Already we are seeing deaths and losses as a result right here, it is going to get a lot worse.

Now, this raft of proposals has come from consultation with those most affected, most involved, the stakeholders in agribusiness. Of course there will be screeching, all change is painful, for some more than others. This raft is also a very watered down version of what we really need to do. A compromise. And it isn't fixed in stone, plenty of time for discussion and more watering down, in fact, given a change of government we can pretty much guarantee that.

It is really self centred and probably just plain ignorant to whinge about these measures, which are after all designed to work to all our benefit. To save losses, lives, and the very real impact of an enormously changed world. But hey, we're old, we're lucky, we will probably escape the worst impacts because we'll be dead. Our kids, and theirs won't though.

I wonder what they will think of the legacy we are leaving them...