Theres lots of talk about taxes and GHGs but not a lot about what can be done to help the environment and the economy. The worst GHG is Methane, a fart tax maybe?
Her's your answer, HEMP, (no TCH) You can eat it, its a medical marvel, the oil can be used in cosmetics and food procuction, it's better and healthier than Soy, You can wear it, build with it, (in fact it is now thought that the stone used to build the pyramids were actually man-made stones made from hemp). Hemp mixed with lime and water makes a cement that when dry looks exactly like STONE
It can be made into a fuel for vehicles, Plastic to make just about anything from furniture to cars, it burns more efficiently and cleaner than coal (and can be used to fire power stations cleaner and cheaper). It's estimated it can be used in 25,000 products.
It's cheap to grow,, make a good profit for the growers, grows in any climate requires very little fertilizer, growing peas and plowing them in before seeding does the trick, and you can grow up to three crops a year depending on climate, Australia would have no problems there.
Plastic made from it breaks down easily without harming the enviroment it's even good for the soil.
Watch these short videos and decide for yourselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_YP1U0GaUY&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxlj6fgQ-ZU&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxd64t6H3_4&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AzbtWzwK8A&NR=1So why is it illegal? Well look at the products it can produce quickly and cheaply.
What would the oil companies and all the other Multinationals that control our government do?
Yikes the pollies might lose a whole lot of "bonuses". The government wont consider it in order to protect the polluters.
But there it is folks environment saved, economy saved but it'll never happen because we sit on our arses and do nothing.
When I contacted the environmental minister several years ago I got the standard answer, "it was tried and the crops failed"
Wonder who the agriculturists were?