Sunday, February 15, 2009

Carbon Polluter's Rescue Scheme

At the recent Climate Summit I attended the presentation on the proposed CPRS. At the end, discussion centred on the need to find some other words for the acronym. Here's my go at it:

CARBON POLLUTER'S RESCUE SCHEME

Here’s how we could use it in the GLOBAL WARMING is a BURNING HOME frame.

“If I walk into my kitchen and there’s a fire burning I need to put out all the fire as quickly as possible to save my home. If I just put out 5 per cent it won’t stop the fire. If I put out 15 percent, it won’t stop the fire. I need to put out as much of that fire as soon as possible if I want to save my home.

Kevin Rudd’s plan will only put out 5 per cent of the fire. Kevin Rudd is telling us that putting out only 5 per cent of the fire is enough. That’s Kevin Rudd’s Carbon Polluter’s Rescue Scheme. But it get’s worse. His Carbon Polluter’s Rescue Scheme even lets Big Polluters walk into your home and dump a load of coal on the fire. More fuel for the fire to burn. It let’s them buy pollution credits, so they can pollute more. It gives the Big Polluters public money, hundreds of millions of dollars, to just keep on polluting.

That’s Kevin Rudd’s Carbon Polluter’s Rescue Scheme: rescues big polluters, trashes planet Earth, our home.

Kevin Rudd’s C.P.R.S is C.R.A.P. It needs to be SCRAPPED.”