As I await for the flight to Hong Kong on my way to Taipei I read with interest and delight Alan Pear’s article in The Age to day – 'Carbon won’t cost the clever consumer'. As the forum I am attending and speaking is on low carbon cities it’s clear that consumers and cities can be clever and it’s about time!
The recent hysterical claims that carbon pricing will make it too expensive to run an airconditioner, or that many industries will be destroyed, are simply ridiculous. The reality is that costs are changing all the time, and the carbon cost is likely to be ''in the noise'' for most Australians, even for electricity prices. The objective of placing a price on carbon dioxide emissions is clear. Emitters now make free use of the limited global atmosphere. Placing a price on emissions means they will ''pay to pollute''.
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