Monday, January 07, 2008
JOURNEY BEGINS
The Age last year launched a greenhouse gas indicator to shame its small readership into living miserably:
This will enable readers to monitor how the state’s power and energy sources are being used. We also hope for individual results: that each person who consults the indicators will perhaps be a little more energy-efficient and, at the same time, contribute to the overall aim to bring emissions down to more acceptable levels. As Mao Zedong said, a journey of a thousand of miles begins with a single step.
Great environmentalist Mao brought humans down to “more acceptable levels”. Let’s see how the Age’s campaign is working out:
Annual greenhouse gas emissions from energy in Victoria have soared by nearly 30% ...
According to the greenhouse indicator, a world-first project designed to track a state’s continuing contribution to climate change, Victoria emitted 103.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2007, compared with 80 million tonnes in 1990.
Keep on trackin’, li’l greenhouse indicator.