Hunt's love of Bush

Comments on Greg Hunt “George Bush key to green future”, 31/12/2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/george-bush-key-to-green-future/story-e6frg6zo-1225814832888

Hunt's line of argument may or may not even be attractive to Australians. But it certainly misses the point totally.

The main causes of failure at Copenhagen were not because:
there were too many players or moving parts;
the target were too big; or
China was playing what Hunt describes as "classic 19th century power politics".

The fundamental causes of failure were:
developed countries wanted a deal that is unfair and will disadvantage developing countries and possibly will suffocate their economies, while rich countries can continue their much higher emissions;
the unrealistic expectations by main developed countries that developing countries must accept that unfair deal; and
the continued push by some developed countries for some developing countries to have even higher reduction targets.

If you have got the fact wrong, it is impossible to get the solution right.

A deal on climate change must be based on fairness if it involves all countries that have drastic differences in living standard, in income levels and in per capita emissions.

The only long term solution to climate change is to use the "emitters pay" principle, based on per capita emission levels.

Hunt should stop trying to be smarter politicians of developed countries and fool-playing developing countries.