STUDENTS MUST ACT
AGAIN we are being subjected to hundreds of thousands of students demanding that the government (or someone) should do something about “global warming”. Somebody else?
In my opinion, if you personally believe sincerely in change, then the responsibility falls upon you as an individual to make the change in their personal lives instead of asking others to do something.
1. Reduce personal consumption. This on its own will reduce the amount of energy required around the world for industry to supply all the items demanded by our youth who statistically are the highest level of consumables and therefore the highest contributors to global warming.
2. Limit population growth: Australia’s population will double every 10 years causing exponential increases in the manufacture of cars, white goods, housing, electronic phones and games plus heavy demands on power infrastructure.
3. Personally reduce electricity consumption and fossil fuels (ie: petrol, gas and diesel)
The problem, if indeed there is one, is that there is no way the government on its own can control public demand for more goods and services required by the demanding younger population, which in turn utilises coal for the imquired mense energy required for industry to produce.
The answer lays in education, sciences, and physics, so instead of demanding that someone else ought to legislate change, it is entirely up to these students to go back to school, attend university and find their own answers in science and physics to their believed problem.
Generations of younger Australians have been mollycoddled by government as well as parents, with carbon producing transport to school, sports and protests, electronic goods, mobile phones, computers, tablets, TVs, king-sized beds and more, so now it is time for positive input from our future leaders (students) to accept that they are a major part of their perceived problem.
Alternatively the government could legislate fuel rationing and increased taxes, electricity tax, higher tax on consumables, limit on vehicle size, and high tax on four wheel drives, tax on excessive water usage, and many more options to reduce global warming caused by excessive out of control consumption. However students would object to that and perhaps stage protests.
BRIAN SAYERS, Millmerran