Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has shrugged off the growing corporate backlash to his emissions trading scheme, saying he never expected the introduction of the scheme to be easy.
Stick to your guns Kevin. I just hope you do not get overwhelmed by the combined weigh of corporate clowns like Dixon at Qantas, who obviously feels its more important to emit as much jet exhaust and sell as many cigarettes as possible in the name of corporate profit than to help create a habitable planet.
"We can't absorb a $100 million cost, which is the price analysts are saying would be for Qantas. We would have to put that cost back onto our domestic operations," he (Dixon) told a Sydney news conference.
So do it you dickhead. Wake up. You are meant to be a leader. Start leading.
Mr Dixon says the Federal Government's proposed emissions scheme has unfairly singled out the aviation industry.
No they haven't. They might however have fairly singled out one of the industries that is the most wasteful and harmful to ongoing human life. Welcome to the 21st century Geoff.
Its these sorts of statements that could lead one to despair that we will even make it alive to the end of this century. If these corporate leaders are the finest that the western economic system can produce, then we had better change to another system real quick, or we are doomed.
Fortunately, there are still a few real leaders in this world of non-leaders incumbents.
Gore urges Americans to make total shift to renewables
Al Gore has urged Americans to make a total shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy within 10 years.
And BBC adds ...
Mr Gore compared the scale of the challenge to that of putting a man on the moon in the 1960s.
See that; that's leadership!
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