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I'll bet when the Aussies voted in Rudd and his climate change platform, they weren't quite expecting this...
Never, ever underestimate what a 600-page government study might conclude. Canadians should check that Green Shift plan very carefully. If the Liberals follow the Aussie example reported below it takes no imagination to guess what the BBC headline will read. :p
Could be the most popular Canadian political party recommendation ever. Anything to save the planet...
From the BBC:
Never, ever underestimate what a 600-page government study might conclude. Canadians should check that Green Shift plan very carefully. If the Liberals follow the Aussie example reported below it takes no imagination to guess what the BBC headline will read. :p
Could be the most popular Canadian political party recommendation ever. Anything to save the planet...
From the BBC:
Australians urged to eat kangaroo
An Australian government adviser on climate change has urged Australians to ditch beef and lamb for kangaroo steaks to help save the planet.
Sheep and cows produce a high amount of environmentally unfriendly methane gas through belching and flatulence.
But economist Ross Garnaut noted in a report on global warming that kangaroos produce virtually no methane...
...In a 600-page study commissioned by the Australian government, Professor Garnaut calls for the agricultural industry to be included in the emissions trading scheme to be set up by 2010...
...Citing a study for the potential of kangaroos to replace other livestock for meat production, he notes that by 2020 beef cattle could be reduced by 7 million and sheep by 36 million.
This would create the opportunity for an increase in kangaroo numbers from 34 million to 240 million in 12 years time...
An Australian government adviser on climate change has urged Australians to ditch beef and lamb for kangaroo steaks to help save the planet.
Sheep and cows produce a high amount of environmentally unfriendly methane gas through belching and flatulence.
But economist Ross Garnaut noted in a report on global warming that kangaroos produce virtually no methane...
...In a 600-page study commissioned by the Australian government, Professor Garnaut calls for the agricultural industry to be included in the emissions trading scheme to be set up by 2010...
...Citing a study for the potential of kangaroos to replace other livestock for meat production, he notes that by 2020 beef cattle could be reduced by 7 million and sheep by 36 million.
This would create the opportunity for an increase in kangaroo numbers from 34 million to 240 million in 12 years time...
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