Engineer (logged in via email @timpaton.net) Australia contributes about 1.5% of the global anthropogenic CO2 load. If we cut our emissions and the other 98.5% contributors don't, our global impact is negligible. So let's wait for somebody else to do something first. USA contributes about 18% of the global anthropogenic CO2 load. If they cut their emissions and the other 82% contributors don't, the global impact is negligible. So let's wait for somebody else to do something first. Australia contributes about 1.5% of the global anthropogenic CO2 load. If we cut our emissions and the other 98.5% contributors don't, our global impact is negligible. So let's wait for somebody else to do something first. USA contributes about 18% of the global anthropogenic CO2 load. If they cut their emissions and the other 82% contributors don't, the global impact is negligible. So let's wait for somebody else to do something first. China contributes about 23% of the global anthropogenic CO2 load [1]. If they cut their emissions and the other 77% contributors don't, the global impact is negligible. So let's wait for somebody else to do something first. Let's all sit and wait for each other to go first. Then we can blame each other when nothing happens. -- [1] much is said and written about China's status as the biggest CO2 producer. Not so much is said correlating this with China's status as the world's manufacturing centre. China burns coal to make cheap manufactured goods for the Western world (to