way that they develop sustainably. And yes, it is true that businesses tend to be corrupt left to their own devices - because the decent ones will be out-competed by the cheats. This is not an argument to keep business out of carbon reduction - they need to be part of the solution. Rather it is yet another wake up call to ensure business is properly regulated so that the cheats can't take advantage of the decent. Western red : 22 Jul 2011 11:38:32am Good call, now we should reduce the compensation package to us idle rich Australians, if I have to pay about $10 pw then the huddled masses could lose a little bit of their largesse, seems they don't want it anyway. We could then direct that all abatement happen in Australia or through Australian managed aid programmes in our region. Brian62 : 22 Jul 2011 11:36:41am Interesting article from Clive Hamilton New Matilda 20th July 2011 "You know what they say about desperate times? Faced with the threat of climate change, The Oz is recruiting Trots to fight greenies in its opinion pages, writes Clive Hamilton Diligently following the principle that an enemy's enemy is a friend, Rebecca Weisser, the opinion editor of The Australian has been allocating a lot of space lately to the work of Brendan O'Neill, the editor of London-based online magazine Spiked." seems the Drum travels to the same tune "anything you can do we can do better together" all together now ?