Time to Build Better Infrastructure.
By Viv Forbes,
Chairman,
Floods, fires, cyclones and
drought are ever-present features of the Australian landscape and have been
here far longer than cars, cattle, coal miners and timber getters.
Yet every time we have a
natural disaster, we find government infrastructure washed away, burnt down,
blown apart or lacking water. Meanwhile billions of dollars of community
savings are wasted on vain attempts to cool the climate of the next
century.
This surely is the year to
stop wasting money on climate-change follies in order to allow more spending on
real present-day problems like disaster-proofing government controlled
infrastructure and land.
Two policy changes are
needed.
First, stop all federal,
state and local government spending or legislative support for climate
commissions and bureaucracies, UN-Kyoto junkets, carbon sequestration, green
energy, biofuels, carbon taxing and accounting, global warming research and
climate change foreign aid. In short, abolish every department, position or
budget with “climate”, “warming” or “carbon” in its name or description.
Second, re-build government
infrastructure and manage government lands to standards that can better
withstand the inevitable floods, fires, cyclones and droughts.
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