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“Direct Action” is nothing more than a sideshow. Do you agree?<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Earlier this week Fairfax Media asked 35 top economists\u00a0what they thought of the Government’s Direct Action policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Only two believed direct action was the better policy. Thirty – or 86% – favoured the existing carbon price scheme.<\/p>\n

Of the two that backed direct action, one admitted that he backed it because it is, in effect, “no action”.<\/p>\n

And that is the crux of it. Direct action is the policy of a government that doesn’t really believe that emissions reductions are necessary. It is a political sideshow that says, “look we are doing something!” without actually doing very much at all. Apart from giving billions to polluters to make their dirty processes more efficient (which means more profitable).<\/p>\n

So I thought it was time to show the policy for what it is – in glorious technicolor. With the\u00a0latest research<\/a>\u00a0showing that Australia needs to reduce its emissions by 25% to keep to its carbon budget, and direct action unlikely to even make a 5% cut, I think it is a story that needs to be told.<\/p>\n

Please share far and wide, and let Australia and the world know that we don’t agree with these clowns who have called climate change “crap” and use Wikipedia for research when they disagree with their department’s own findings.<\/p>\n

(If you want a super high res version of this image to print or share, it’s\u00a0here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[36,65,12,224],"class_list":["post-3000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-policy","tag-australia","tag-carbon-tax","tag-governement-grants","tag-infographic","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhy the Government's Direct Action Sideshow is a joke...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here I take the piss out of the government's 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