use once and throw away). If China was to shut down all their manufacturing activities and we re-localised in Aus, USA and EU, our emissions would skyrocket. Tracing China's CO2 emissions to the end user - the actual beneficiary of the pollution - it's almost all for us. China's domestic CO2 quota is trivial. To pick apart the weak points and non sequiturs in this article is a tempting but meaningless distraction. Are we to fiddle while Rome burns? The booming resources sector is very much a finite earner, and currently only a small proportion of Australians are benefiting from it, while a large proportion of the profits flow to overseas investors. A price on carbon in the short term benefits everyone except mining companies, and in the long term benefits everyone including mining companies. Even Kloppers has called for one! The Australian Government should for once take the lead on a globally important issue rather than hanging on the coat tails of our more powerful allies. about 1 year ago Eclipse Now Manager of design firm (logged in via email @optusnet.com.au) Well said Anthony! I tried to express the same thing, but had too much to say in the one post. Well done. about 1 year ago Roxane Paczensky Registered Nurse (logged in via email @internode.on.net) How morally bankrupt the argument of saving money and jobs is over the survival of our offspring. Even if no-one else acts I want to be able to tell my grandchildren we at