Electric Vehicle Subsidies, How Does Australia Compare to Other Nations?
The environmental and economic benefits of electric vehicles (EVs) are quickly becoming apparent to many people and Governments around the world. Such benefits include cleaner air in our towns and cities and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Zero greenhouse gas emissions from driving EVs is achievable if the EV is charged via electricity from renewable sources such as solar or wind energy. This is an important point, the environmental benefits of driving an EV are reduced if the electricity used to charge the EV comes from a dirty coal fired power station. However, even if some or all the electricity used to charge an EV is sourced from burning coal, it is still a better environmental outcome than using petrol or diesel and will result in “zero exhaust emissions”. This is a good thing if you live in a town or and city with air quality problems as millions of people
Intergenerational Equity:What is it and should we care about it?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Intergenerational equity is a concept which says that humans hold the natural and cultural environment of the Earth, in common both with other members of the present generation and with other generations, past and future. It essentially means that we inherit the Earth from previous generations and have an obligation to pass it on in reasonable condition to future generations. Imagine a scenario where a man is born in 1947, the oceans and food chain were free of plastic and the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), a heat-trapping greenhouse gas in our atmosphere was 310 parts per million (ppm). At 37 years of age, the man and his partner have a daughter in the year 1984 by which time the oceans were being impacted by plastics on a limited scale and the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere had risen to 345 ppm. When the man is 71 years of
