Only 700 students want a price on carbon?

Pretty girls smiling winsomely? The passion and commitment that is seen in young people fighting for a safe climate future is not inspired by pretty girls, but by a belief that we can make a better and safer world than the one we have inherited. 700 students in Canberra? They do not stand alone. On the weekend just past, 40,000 people hit the streets all around the country to pledge their support for putting a price on pollution, and showing leadership domestically and on the world stage. Poll after poll has shown that Australians want to cut pollution, and that they want to leave a safer world for their kids and grandkids, with clean air, clean water and a safe climate. In the past 12 months as the politicians have debated how to do this, we have seen the grassroots community strengthened by young voices, the voices of the generation that will likely see the worst impacts of climate change. The group of young people from Canberra who make up part of this strong movement are making their voices heard in the most important debate of our generation. Keep making yourselves heard!

Chop71 said :

I only counted 23. Did the media hype up the other 677 students.

700 signed, 23 handed it over.

I only counted 23. Did the media hype up the other 677 students.

Populist post Johnboy. The carbon tax lobby will always have to fight against the selfishness of the average Aussie, it’s human nature to not want to pay for something that is of a seemingly intangible benefit.

A failing of our species appears to be that a large section of the population, and I suspect the majority, cannot fully comprehend issues that require long term and invisible outcomes. I’ll bet there were a substantial number of Easter Islanders who were warning about impending catastrophe but drowned out by the majority who were incapable of long term rational thought.

As we are today.

Only 700 from the whole of the ACT? I would be embarrassed to show so little support for a cause.

Can’t wait to see the usual comments about ‘how this figure doesn’t reflect the true feelings of the Australian public’ and so on……………………….

In fact, it’s a fairly interesting micro-shot of other polls currently running on the acceptance of a carbon tax. In the Fox Poll a day or so ago 83% of the people were against an imposed carbon tax. So the figures from these students roughly represent the general feelings on wider scale I suspect.