THE head of Australia's largest coal company, Tony Haggarty, has denounced Australia's carbon tax as ''pointless'' and said he is sceptical about human efforts to control climate change.
In an interview with BusinessDay, the Whitehaven Coal managing director - who this month sealed a $5.1 billion merger between Whitehaven and Nathan Tinkler's Aston Resources - said he did not accept the climate science as ''having proved anything''.
''I don't say that it's wrong, but it's the height of human arrogance to think that we understand climate and, moreover, to think we can control it, I think that's utterly ridiculous. Pollution is bad, I don't think anybody can argue with that. Whether carbon dioxide is the devil, I'm not sure. The root of it, of course, is population growth and the debate ignores that, because it is politically impossible to discuss.''
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