Australia crazy to lead on climate change: Howard - Insiders - ABC

[Howard] And the whole basis on which we went to the people with that policy and the belief was that the rest of the world would follow and would be going in the same direction.

But they're not. I mean, the Americans, and I've just been in the United States and there's no chance in the world of the Americans embracing an emissions trading system.

The Indians aren't, the Chinese aren't.

And we are crazy to be going ahead of the rest of the world. If the rest of the world were adopting a different attitude, well then a different attitude might be countenanced.

But the whole scene has changed.