ago Shirley Birney retiree (logged in via email @tpg.com.au) This nation is incapable of controlling industrial lead and mercury emissions. Parliamentary enquiries lay testament to that. wilma western (logged in via email @bigpond.com) What ? No-one else is acting? Forget the UK and Eurozone, Denmark, Norway et al , several US states , and the intention of California, the economy of which is far greater that many single countries to introduce an ETS shortly? The article plays to ignorant Aus parochialism. Crucial to Australia acting now are the notion that "all men are created equal" and the fact that our disproportionately high annual domestic plus exported annual per capita GHG pollution that is about 60 times bigger than Bangladesh's annual per capita GHG pollution value. Crucial to Australia acting now are the notion that "all men are created equal" and the fact that our disproportionately high annual domestic plus exported annual per capita GHG pollution that is about 60 times bigger than Bangladesh's annual per capita GHG pollution value. However the Carbon Tax of the pro-coal, pro-gas Gillard Labor Government is an exception-ridden dog's breakfast and the Carbon Tax-ETS plan a disastrous recipe for climate change inaction as shown by Treasury analysis (see below). Gillard Labor's pre-election promise was "no carbon tax" and its current promise is "5% off 2000 GHG pollution by 2020". Indeed Treasury modeling in its 2011 "Strong Growth, Low Pollution" report says that Australia's Domestic GHG pollution will INCREASE in 2020 to be 112% of that