Chicken Feed to Save the Planet!
Here’s an alarmist piece of nonsense for you. Households may be worse off with carbon trading: report.
A report for the Climate Institute shows that five years into a carbon emissions trading scheme an average household could be $200 a year worse off.
What’s that $200 in 2013 worth in today’s money? About $150 or so, or under $0.50 per day. If a typical Australian houshold were to try any one of the following they’d more than offset that chicken-feed amount.
- Drink tap water rather than bottled water
- Drive a bit less
- Eat a bit less
- Shop from a farmers’ market
- Eat less meat
- Eliminate soft-drinks and cordials from the weekly shop
- Run your heater less in winter, and your air-con less in Summer
- Take faster showers
- Switch to low-energy lighting
- Buy less stuff you don’t need
- Buy one less take-away coffee per week
- Take a packed lunch to work
- Eat more home-cooked meals
- Drink less alcohol
- Cancel your FoxTel
- Use less power by turning appliances off at the wall
- Use the energy-saver mode on your computer
- Switch off lights that don’t need to be on
- … and many more
Notice something here? All of those money-saving ideas, and there are hundreds more, not only save you money they reduce greenhouse gas emissions too. On top of that they improve your family’s quality of life. The article is pure alarmist nonsense. What might be the costs of inaction by 2013? — DS
