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	<title>Comments on: Garnaut adrift</title>
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		<title>By: Julien Peter Benney</title>
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		<dc:creator>Julien Peter Benney</dc:creator>
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		<description>The claim that 45- parts per million is an adequate level is completely wrong.

The very fact of declines in a decade of 40 percent in Melbourne&#039;s rainfall and equivalent increaes sustained over a longer period in the Eucla and Goldfields regions of Western Australia is proof we can have only one long-term goal - that being the restoration of pre-industrial carbon dioxide levels through complete abolition of fossil fuel energy.

Where Australia is unique is that its population, owing to abudant cheap land in outer suburban areas, is extremely passive and accepting of a status quo in which oil and car companies rule transport policy in a manner akin to kings: they own the transport system and can veto reasonable project to traqnsfer every solitary cent from road and air to a 100 percent rail-based transport budget in which building a road or even proposing to do so is met with real justice that would mean locking up the road lobby, not the refugees, in detention camps. Along with it must be atarget of having Australia&#039;s last-ever new car sold within a decade and all private-use vehicle registration completely banned.

The problem is that demand for such policies will only exist of there is - as in Europe, Asia and New Zealand - some limit on land supply. That can only happen if not only the mallee, but all Australia&#039;s farmland, is fully revegetated and made into nature or game (regulated hunting) reserves the size of European countries.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The claim that 45- parts per million is an adequate level is completely wrong.</p>
<p>The very fact of declines in a decade of 40 percent in Melbourne&#8217;s rainfall and equivalent increaes sustained over a longer period in the Eucla and Goldfields regions of Western Australia is proof we can have only one long-term goal &#8211; that being the restoration of pre-industrial carbon dioxide levels through complete abolition of fossil fuel energy.</p>
<p>Where Australia is unique is that its population, owing to abudant cheap land in outer suburban areas, is extremely passive and accepting of a status quo in which oil and car companies rule transport policy in a manner akin to kings: they own the transport system and can veto reasonable project to traqnsfer every solitary cent from road and air to a 100 percent rail-based transport budget in which building a road or even proposing to do so is met with real justice that would mean locking up the road lobby, not the refugees, in detention camps. Along with it must be atarget of having Australia&#8217;s last-ever new car sold within a decade and all private-use vehicle registration completely banned.</p>
<p>The problem is that demand for such policies will only exist of there is &#8211; as in Europe, Asia and New Zealand &#8211; some limit on land supply. That can only happen if not only the mallee, but all Australia&#8217;s farmland, is fully revegetated and made into nature or game (regulated hunting) reserves the size of European countries.</p>
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