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I think we all agree there's a fair chance that Peak Oil will be the biggest issue facing Australia (and the world) in 2020. Given that Peak Oil did not rate a mention at Kev's gabfest, how will we judge this summit in 12 years time?
It's hardly been a "Woodstock moment". My guess is that Kevin Rudd is fast presiding over a do-nothing government that talks and talks and talks and then listens, listens, listens and distills their actions down to the least inoffensive possible which delivers a whole of nothing to everyobdy. However the public will love it because they will feel "included" in the great adventure which is Australian democracy.
Very little will actually be achieved on the ground however but the big symbolic gestures will be amplified and worshipped by the mesmerised sycophants characterised by most of the academic iluminati who propse these things in the first place. Peak Oil will challenge us to ask where our next meal will come from and that is not nearly as exciting as asking where our next Picasso will come from.
It's worse than you think. Just 1 day after the summit 2020, "Environment" Minister Peter Garrett approved a new coal export terminal at Gladstone, 24 million tons of coal extra every year.
ONE of Australia's largest coal terminals has been approved for central Queensland.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23574040-3122,00.html
Instead of reporting this scandal, the Sydney Morning Herald reported:
Australia gets bigger and richer
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/04/21/1208742851950.html