The Two Environmental Problems

Symptoms of the Problem.
Symptoms of the Problem.

For many decades now the root cause of the world's environmental problems has been clear:

Problem 1:
There are too many people consuming too many resources and emitting too much pollution.

The broad solutions to this have also become increasingly clear:

To varying degrees the Greens, the Democrats and others have been campaigning on these issues for many years - with few results.

This leads us to the second problem:

Problem 2:
The majority have repeatedly voted against measures that would solve these problems.

To be effective environmentalists must propose solutions that are attractive to today's electorate.

Populist Environmental Measures

NewAustralia promotes effective environmental solutions that could be sold to large sections of the electorate. We seek to offset every environmental measure with a 'sweetener' to make the measure palatable to the voter.

Typically this involves a revenue-neutral tax shift from 'Goods' to 'Bads' - See our Eco Tax page.

These measures are designed to address both Problem 1 and 2. All solutions have to be economically and above all politically feasible.

Environmental solutions that people don't vote for are irrelevant.







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Fisheries collapse

23th Aug 2009: "We are at the last chance cafe when it comes to fisheries." - AMCS. more...

Oceans warming up

22nd Aug 2009: July was the hottest month for the world's oceans in 130 years according to the US National Climatic Data Center.

India Rejects Cap

27th May 2009: India states again that it wants the same cap per head as Australia...which is why a global ETS will not work. more...

Politicians Won't Act

15th Apr 2009: Almost nine out of 10 climate scientists do not believe political efforts to restrict global warming to 2 degrees will succeed.  more...

5% Target Announced

Rudd government announces pathetically weak greenhouse target + vast subsidies for coal miners and polluters. Suprise, suprise!  more...

Emission Cut Hoax

31st Oct 2008: "AUSTRALIA plans to minimise the cost of tackling climate change by paying developing countries such as Indonesia to cut their greenhouse emissions, long-awaited modelling by Treasury shows." more...

Planning for a flood

29th Sep 2008: "...growing anxiety among scientists about the pace of climate change, with key indicators of planet's geophysical system running ahead of the modelling by as much as 50 years. " more...

Garnaut is wrong

9th Sept 2008: "Three authors with the UN's climate change panel told The Age Professor Garnaut had made a mistake by advising the Government to accept a deal that would all but guarantee environmental and social disaster. " more...