Letter to the Editor

The Canberra Times in its lead story of Saturday 30th reports the coal industry as saying reducing greenhouse emissions is too expensive, financially risky and untested. If we put a surcharge onto energy production that causes greenhouse emissions then we would soon find that reducing greenhouse emissions would be inexpensive and financially sound and [...]

A market driven approach to peace

A market driven approach to peace
Violent conflict both individually and internationally is caused by the inability of people to resolve disagreements by other means. What is needed are mechanisms to resolve conflicts. In practise most disagreements boil down to the division of resources. Hence if we have a good way of resolving resource division then [...]

Letter to Editor Canberra Times - published Dec 14th 2006

Alternative solution to greenhouse gas abatement
Most agree that the cost of green house gases should be built into the price we pay for energy. The solutions suggested are carbon credits (letting people pay to be able to pollute) and green house gas taxes (giving the government money to distribute). Both these mechanisms have problems. An [...]