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OT: Plebiscite 23-Jun-2011 At 10:09:04 AM evanbb

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On 23/06/2011 rodw wrote:
>On 23/06/2011 evanbb wrote:
>
>>Australia could significantly cut their emissions by abandoning the aluminium
>>smelting sector. If it employs more than 10,000 people I will be very
>surprised.
>
>Tell that to the 10,000 people who depend on it...comments like that really
>undermine your "lets all hold hands and do our bit" mantra.....your bit
>to turn off a heater or two...their bit to loose job, house income and
>future.....

I didn't say they were going to become unemployed. The small number means it's just a lower number of people who need compensation/retraining. But note every single policy intervention has winners and losers. At the moment, everyone is losing because of a select few. removing the aluminium smelting sector is one way of addressing this balance.

My broader point here is that 'all doing our bit' WILL NOT make enough difference. The top 20 energy using companies in Australia use more energy than every household and every vehicle in Australia combined. This is very much a big end of town problem in Australia. Santos found an energy efficiency opportunity at the Karatha gas plant last year that lowered Australia's energy use by 1%. That's 2 desalination plants.