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Indeed, on the same day Steinmeier was speaking in Munich, Barack Obama was launching his presidential campaign in Springfield, Ill. His speech had two paragraphs on foreign policy. In the first, Obama acknowledged the importance of a strong military in the key task of this generation--to "confront" and "track down" terrorists. In the second, he urged that "we bring an end to this war in Iraq" by sending our combat troops home. "It's time," he said, "to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else...
...remove Saddam, a brutal dictator with a history of developing weapons of mass destruction and fostering terrorism in the heart of the Middle East. We then thought we should try to stay to help these nations achieve decent and democratic governments. We are still engaged in this difficult task, and we have made mistakes in its pursuit...
...doubters provide a vital service. They keep the scientists and politicians in check, and are first to smack down the loons who want to shut down fossil-fuel industries. In Australia, the dynamic in grass-roots politics and public policy is toward immediate action. A joint government-business Task Group on Emissions Trading last week said "the warning signs cannot be ignored." "While debate continues about the precise scale, consequences and costs of climate change, and the scope for long-term adaptation to global warming, there is growing acknowledgment that governments, individually and collectively, should act to mitigate the emission...
...abatement in the level of greenhouse gases without large job losses or high costs to industry and consumers. As well, some experts think that with the right settings, a carbon market can curb energy demand and lead to the take-up of new energy technologies (that is, as the Task Group said, "clean coal," gas, nuclear power and renewable sources...
...Prime Minister last December on nuclear power, by former Telstra chief Ziggy Switkowski, estimated that the additional electricity-producing capacity to drive the nation at mid-century will need to use technology with near-zero greenhouse gas emissions (to keep emissions from this sector at today's levels). The Task Group is now taking submissions from the community and will report to the P.M. by the end of May. "Given the scale of the challenge faced," the group says in its issues paper, "there is no room for complacency." A local emissions-trading scheme is coming. Move over scientists, politicians...