The Age
Stuff in The Age today:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/we-put-it-there-so-lets-go-first-in-cleaning-up/2008/04/02/1206851007615.html
"At the moment, the centre of the ethical debate over climate change is whether the industrialised nations should cut their greenhouse gas emissions in the absence of any binding commitment from the big developing nations, such as China and India. In the long run everyone agrees that unless these emerging economic giants stop increasing their emissions, cuts by the industrialised nations will postpone, but not avert, catastrophe. But who should make the first, and deepest, cuts? On at least three plausible principles of justice, the industrialised nations should." [1]
Well duh. But Go Age for saying it.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/in-la-la-land-you-privatise-to-manage-water/2008/04/02/1206851007621.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
"There is no problem with water supply that a competitive market couldn't fix. 'Ultimately, it is possible to envisage an evolution to a fully decentralised urban water market involving many retailers and wholesalers offering different forms of product (for example price and security)'."
Or not.
"However, an important caveat is that such arrangements do not operate elsewhere in the world'."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/environment/heard-about-greenhouse/2008/04/02/1206851013768.html
"Yesterday, after a 12-month study, Sir Rod Eddington tabled his blueprint for improving transport links between Melbourne's east and west,
[...]
Two years ago a $10 billion plan to improve both public transport and roads, Meeting our Transport Challenges, was released. Before that, in 2004, there was another strategy, Linking Victoria.
And in 2002, we had the planning blueprint Melbourne 2030, which stressed the need get people out of cars and into public transport and which aimed to have 20% of trips in Melbourne made by public transport by 2020.
Are all the plans consistent? How do they relate? Does one supplant the other? Who knows?"
[1] Tangentially, I finally finished the last few pages of Singer's "Writings on an Ethical Life" a little while ago - it'd been bookmarked at the last chapter for months!
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/we-put-it-there-so-lets-go-first-in-cleaning-up/2008/04/02/1206851007615.html
"At the moment, the centre of the ethical debate over climate change is whether the industrialised nations should cut their greenhouse gas emissions in the absence of any binding commitment from the big developing nations, such as China and India. In the long run everyone agrees that unless these emerging economic giants stop increasing their emissions, cuts by the industrialised nations will postpone, but not avert, catastrophe. But who should make the first, and deepest, cuts? On at least three plausible principles of justice, the industrialised nations should." [1]
Well duh. But Go Age for saying it.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/in-la-la-land-you-privatise-to-manage-water/2008/04/02/1206851007621.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
"There is no problem with water supply that a competitive market couldn't fix. 'Ultimately, it is possible to envisage an evolution to a fully decentralised urban water market involving many retailers and wholesalers offering different forms of product (for example price and security)'."
Or not.
"However, an important caveat is that such arrangements do not operate elsewhere in the world'."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/environment/heard-about-greenhouse/2008/04/02/1206851013768.html
"Yesterday, after a 12-month study, Sir Rod Eddington tabled his blueprint for improving transport links between Melbourne's east and west,
[...]
Two years ago a $10 billion plan to improve both public transport and roads, Meeting our Transport Challenges, was released. Before that, in 2004, there was another strategy, Linking Victoria.
And in 2002, we had the planning blueprint Melbourne 2030, which stressed the need get people out of cars and into public transport and which aimed to have 20% of trips in Melbourne made by public transport by 2020.
Are all the plans consistent? How do they relate? Does one supplant the other? Who knows?"
[1] Tangentially, I finally finished the last few pages of Singer's "Writings on an Ethical Life" a little while ago - it'd been bookmarked at the last chapter for months!