That adds up to global warming and, amongst many things, more extreme and dangerous and costly weather events. That's why the developed nations met in Kyoto last year. Many countries pledged to reduce their gases below what they were emitting in 1990. Australia was allowed to increase its 1990 gas cloud by 8 per cent. Not so, it seems.
Nobody wants to damage the ecology.
Nobody wants to destroy the economy in the process of doing that. So to deal with greenhouse, we need to move to a new pathway. That pathway is described in this document, a confronting, uncompromising report to the PM which says even reaching our 8 per cent increase figure is going to be incredibly hard, because we're so reliant on and rich in fossil fuels. We've got more than our share of the oil, much more than our share of the gas, much, much more than our share of the uranium. But eliminating all road transport, including all private cars, would only achieve a cut of 60 million tonnes.