{"id":1238,"date":"2011-03-23T14:33:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T04:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2015-02-23T15:59:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T05:59:47","slug":"barnaby-joyces-anti-carbon-tax-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/barnaby-joyces-anti-carbon-tax-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnaby Joyce&#8217;s anti-carbon tax petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a link to Barnaby Joyce&#8217;s anti-carbon tax petition<\/p>\n<p>It only takes a few seconds to add your name.<\/p>\n<p>If a carbon tax stopped pollution it would be a great scheme.\u00a0 But it won&#8217;t, it will only drive already struggling businesses to the wall, increase unemployment and increase the cost of living&#8230;while churning out fat profits for a tiny number of people who have a financial interest in running the scheme.\u00a0 Conservation is a middle-class\u00a0luxury &#8211; reduce the middle class, increase the numbers of Australians\u00a0just existing in &#8216;survival mode&#8217; and you reduce the amount of interest and enthusiasm for conservation. And you reduce the amount of money spent on it by governments and the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, remember the saying, &#8216;never trust a prophet making a profit&#8217;.\u00a0 It would be interesting to see the air travel miles clocked up by all the extremist conservationists&#8230;oh that&#8217;s right, they purchase offset &#8216;carbon credits&#8217; every time they fly, so they can appease their conscience and pretend that their flying around the planet doesn&#8217;t cause any pollution&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a link to Barnaby Joyce&#8217;s anti-carbon tax petition It only takes a few seconds to add your name. If a carbon tax stopped pollution it would be a great scheme.\u00a0 But it won&#8217;t, it will only drive already struggling businesses to the wall, increase unemployment and increase the cost of living&#8230;while churning out fat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4208,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/4208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}