Australian Coal & Denial "Dooms Planet"

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Unfortunately, signing the Kyoto Protocol was one of the very few acts of the Rudd Labor Government that has matched its climate change rhetoric. Australia remains the the World’s biggest coal exporter and the Developed World’s worst annual per capita greenhouse gas polluter (Australia’s annual per capita CO2 pollution - 27 tonnes CO2 per person per year domestically but 47 tonnes CO2 per person per year including CO2 from coal exports – is 10 times worse than for China and the World and 40 times worse than for India). Indeed Australia helped the US sabotage the December 2007 Bali Climate Change Conference by firmly rejecting any greenhouse gas reduction targets and the latest estimate is that Australia will actually double its annual greenhouse gas pollution by 2050.

The extraordinary thing about this continuing Australian climate criminality is that it is associated with massive Mainstream media and political lying by omission. The major parties in Australia are Labor (that rules all the States as well as ruling Federally) and the Liberal-National Party Coalition Opposition (the Coalition). A minority, humanitarian and pro-environment Australian Greens Party (about 10% of the vote) is important in holding the balance of power in the Australian Senate, the Upper House in the Australian Federal Parliament that involves the Lower House or House of Representatives (members from electorates around the country) and the Senate (a States-based House of Review).

Coal is king in climate criminal Australia and both major parties – collectively known as the Lib-Labs - steadfastly refuse to acknowledge major greenhouse gas pollution realities.