A crescendo of carbon nonsense | Rob Burgess | Commentary | Business Spectator

The government's round-table meeting on Friday with the heads of some of Australia's largest companies – BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, BlueScope Steel, Woodside, Woolworths and NAB – was, by all accounts, a kind of shouting match over the levels of compensation our biggest carbon emitting corporates will receive under the government's proposed carbon tax.
...We might be responsible for only 1.4 per cent of global emissions, but it is sobering to remember that only 0.3 per cent of humanity lives within our borders. There's a lot that can be done here. Indeed, if we do not take adequate steps to rein in our carbon emissions, those 99.7 per cent of the world's population will want to know why