Yes, you CERTAINLY wouldn't want to "take a cheap, populist road and run a fear campaign", would you?

Emissions trading? Half the nation doesn't have a clue | watoday.com.au

Meanwhile, on a visit to Queensland yesterday, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said a cure for global warming would take a long time but insisted that the problem must be solved for the sake of the world's children.

At a child-care centre in Mackay, Mr Rudd urged the Opposition to help develop a bipartisan strategy on climate change.

"If you look at these little kids here today, you can either say, 'well, its all too hard, I'm not going to act,' or you can say, about your kids and your grandkids, that in fact we're going to take the right measures to do something to save the planet."

Mr Rudd said that in the last week of Parliament the Opposition had chosen to take a cheap, populist road and run a fear campaign on petrol prices, with the claim emission trading could add up to 30 cents a litre to the cost of petrol.