The Climate Change CANCER

Cancer: noun ?kænt .s?r:  An uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue which spreads relentlessly and insidiously, weakens and wastes the patient by replacing or crowding out normal productive tissues thereby depriving the patient of essential materials and energy he needs to live.

Acting Premier Peter Ryan’s warning is only a tiny part of the harm from the Carbon Tax: ” …the federal government’s carbon tax would drive a ”stake through the heart” of the power generation sector, threatening widespread job losses in the Latrobe Valley.”

The Climate Change industry and its carbon tax will not immediately kill our industries or drive your family to the wall. No, it spreads and destroys slowly, more like a cancer.

It will infiltrate our business one by one, closing down and replacing healthy industries with inefficient green industry that survives only by sucking the life out of the rest of society. It will grow public servants in the new five departments, and grow vast numbers of carbon accountants, carbon cops, carbon investigators, lawyers, lobbyists, salesmen and on and on… It will continue to spread its empty sanctimony relentlessly through our public service, our schools and boardrooms as people seek green absolution from our hedonistic ways.

It is a cancer you may not notice. Its  symptoms will be masked by perhaps another global financial crisis, by China slowing down, by the high dollar and other excuses why industry is failing, going off shore, why your bills are going up and your children can’t find a job. But it will be there, a cancer of international competitive disadvantage. A disadvantage shared by not one of our competitor resource exporting countries like the USA, Canada, South Africa, China, Indonesia and Brazil. None of these countries have a national carbon tax and none have plans to introduce one any time soon.

And all this pain is for what?  To save us from climate catastrophe?  Does anyone really believe this anymore ?

ALL PAIN, NO GAIN !