Abstract:
Nearly all sectors of Australian society seem to believe that dealing with the numerous environ – mental crises we face – to the extent that they are recognised at all – will be relatively easy, and won’t require any move away from our present high-consumption lifestyles. Take climate change. The position among the political leaders of both Australia and the rest of the world is that climate change can be averted by a variety of economic and technical fixes, such as carbon trading, carbon capture and storage, renewable energy development, and nuclear power. The more progressive European parties, and especially the Greens, both here and elsewhere, believe that the way forward is green economic development. My argument here is that such optimism is misplaced.
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