Act hastily, roo the scare tactics - Miranda Devine - Opinion - smh.com.au

I don't want to eat kangaroo. Ever. It's dark, chewy, gamey and smelly. But, says Ross Garnaut, the Government's economics guru on climate change, kangaroo is what we will all have to eat in a few years. Beef and lamb will be reserved only for the very wealthy in the brave new future he envisages, in which Australia leads the world on tackling climate change.

If we don't, he said on Tuesday, releasing his 652-page study on the cost of climate change, "the failure of our generation will haunt humanity until the end of time". Cue spooky music.
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The maths is simple. Australia was responsible for 1.5 per cent of global emissions in 2005, dropping to 1.1 per cent by 2030, says Garnaut. The world's largest emitter, China, will go from 18.3 per cent in 2005 to 33 per cent in 2030, with the second largest emitter, the United States, dropping to 11.1 per cent.

So even if you believe everything coming out of the monopoly Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and even if all Australians and their farm animals committed hara-kiri, the long-term impact on global warming of the mass martyrdom would be negligible.