In Queensland, ALP Premier Bligh is intent on luring the world’s jet setters to board aircraft, cruise ships, trains, limos, buses and cars to come to the Gold Coast Games, burning lots of carbon fuels.
But in Honolulu, PM Gillard, leader of the ALP/Green Coalition, has urged our APEC Pacific neighbours to reduce their usage of carbon fuels and turn back to the BC era (before carbon) when tourists used wind powered sailing clippers, solar powered hay burners and muscle powered rickshaws.
One politician looks to a bright carbon-powered future; the other yearns for a dreary carbon-free past. Shows how political schizophrenia can be induced with just a touch of green.
Viv Forbes,
Rosewood
Just a touch of green
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