It would be hard to find someone who was more of a climate policy insider than Ross Garnaut. After a varied career in government and academia including a stint as economic advisor to Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Garnaut was asked by the Rudd Government to review climate policy soon after the 2007 election. The result, completed in 2008, was the report which laid the groundwork for Rudd's emissions trading scheme which came within a whisker of being legislated before it was scuppered by Tony Abbott. He was asked to revise and update this work in 2011 and this update provided the groundwork for the Clean Energy Futures Package which was legislated in 2012 and included a price on carbon. Last year Garnaut released a book, Super-Power: Australia's low carbon opportunity, which further updates his analysis and simplifies it a little for readers like me. You might think that after seeing his careful policy work trashed by fossil fuel industry stooges, Garnaut would be angry or disi
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson