Breaking Queensland's Coal Addiction

I attended a fantastic talk given by Dr John MacKenzie of Friends Of the Earth. It outlined how criminal the Australian Queensland Labor Government is in their approach to climate change. They are tripling the state's coal production - mostly for exports. At the same time they have increased the royalties paid to them by 40%.

The CO2 Emissions from the burning of this coal will increase from 378 million tonnes to 848 million tonnes.

How can Australia (or the world) justify this when many climate scientists say we need to reduce our emisions by 90% - even the conservative 60% figure is unreachable given these growths.

Check out the presentation.