A recent Poll shows 64% of Australians support the Government signing Kyoto and less that 7% oppose it. OK 29% don’t know what to think or don’t care. Perhaps they are not used to thinking.

My personal belief is that you have no credibility telling your children and grandchildren that you love them if you don’t do something active about securing their future. This means reducing our individual and business greenhouse impacts.

• - Other key findings in the report (by Auspoll) were that 73% of Australians expect the Government to show strong international leadership by introducing stronger policies to reduce greenhouse pollution in Australia;
• - A similar number (68 per cent) believe we should be doing more to help developing countries, reduce their emissions; and
• - Most Australians do not want action delayed because of arguments about jobs.
• - Less than one in three (29 per cent) agreed that the government should “delay action on climate change if jobs are at risk”. (The remaining 71 per cent either opposed this position or had no real opinion.) My comment is that we already know that 29% don’t think much!

The full list of findings is available at;

http://www.climateinstitute.org.au/images/climate%20change%20omnibus.pdf

Australia is likely to be the worst affected continent by climate change so we had better care and do sooner rather than later.
“The majority of people surveyed - women in particular - indicated a strong desire to try to reduce the amount of electricity they are currently using in their home,” a CSIRO report says.

“People want to reduce their household emissions as well as save on the cost of their energy bills.”

The report showed that younger, more educated, higher income householders were willing to integrate technology into their home to manage their own household energy requirements.

The report also found that Australians interested in generating their own household electricity prefer renewable energy sources, particularly favoring solar and wind.

Public Attitudes towards Electricity Alternatives: Results from a Survey of Australian Householders is available at www.csiro.au/resources/HouseholdElectricity.html

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