Goethermal; squeaky clean or nukular-lite?

See the map in the link to note how close is the Petratherm project at Paralana to the Beverley uranium leaching project
http://www.nrdb.com.au/index.php?id_pag=72

I'm betting both 'carbon neutral' NZ and the Surat Basin coalbed methane use some kind of bogus carbon credit to get the guernsey.

I was pleased to read that Professor Garnaut supports high carbon prices and no free permits to existing polluters in contrast to what Mr. Howard was proposing.

I am puzzled though that he also thinks that global warming can be brought under control without de-railing global growth. His report will be worth gold if it reveals how this can be achieved.

Also I find this puzzling:

Developing countries...should not be required to cut emissions until they reach the per capita levels of developed countries.

I take this to mean he wants per capita emissions worlwide to be equal for every country. Noble aim, but do the sums.

Current world per capita annual average (approx): 4 tonnes

Assume target of 75% reduction by 2050 to 1 tonne per person per year.

Current Australian average (approx) 30 tonnes.
Australian % reduction requirement to achieve 1 tonne

97%!!!! Good luck.

(And that assumes no population increase.)

Aeldric said, in Australia, The Place to Be: Part 3b:

But as long as you are close to a train line, and trains are still running, then suburban life is possible.

Indeed, the supposition is that living close to shops and train lines may well allow a reasonable life, well into collapse.

I wonder if this is wishful thinking. Whilst, of course, such a situation may be pleasant and workable before collapse and even during a mild recession, I really can't see it being tenable as businesses start to go under and more people have to move to working on food production. Such a situation would require tight organisation, that is, a stable society and structures of government, in order to be tenable, I would have thought.

I'm amazed, sometimes, at the wishful thinking that goes on in peak oil circles, never mind the general populace.

Assuming that citizens remain unaware and governments continue to refuse to plan for a lower resource world (not to mention climate change and reduced biodiversity) and a transition to a different form of agriculture (or some other method of feeding its people) then it is very likely that rapid collapse will happen, at some stage, and chaos will reign for some period of time. In that likelihood, I don't think suburbs would be good places to be, at all. And it doesn't matter if you are living near a disused railway line or some ransacked shops.