Aust(ralia) to be hit hard by climate change

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/1597515

Aust to be hit hard by climate change

Feb 23, 2008 10:35 PM

Australia stands to be one of the worst hit countries economically affected by global warming, according to a new report.

The country is facing a drastic rise in living costs as electricity prices skyrocket and now Australians could be up for the same changes New Zealanders are facing to cut greenhouse gases.

With Australians now getting used to dealing with flash flooding, its making it all the more harder to convince them that the future of life on the world's driest continent looks harsher than ever.

"Without action we're running towards dangerous points more quickly than a lot of the earlier analysis had suggested," says Ross Garnaut, an economist.

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[Demeter]

1. Australia Is Prime Target For Photovoltaics

Get off the grid and get your own power!

That's an eminently solvable problem.

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. I agree, but...

We cannot wave our hands and make millions of solar panels appear in an instant.

There is a limited world-wide production capacity.

[Demeter]

3. I Have This Fantasy That Half The Automobile Manufacturers Switch to PV Production

but it's just a dream....

[OKIsItJustMe]

4. Okay, that's a start

But then there's a problem with raw materials...

[Demeter]

5. Technical Problems Are the Only Ones That Have Solutions!

It's people problems that are intractible--like get them to pay for research, development, production, etc., and stop wasting time and money on "reality shows" and the like.

[OKIsItJustMe]

6. T. T. T.

A couple of relevant Grooks:

http://www.chat.carleton.ca/~tcstewar/grooks/grooks.html

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PROBLEMS

Problems worthy
  of attack
prove their worth
  by hitting back.

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T. T. T.

Put up in a place
where it's easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
     T. T. T.

When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it's well to remember that
     Things Take Time.

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