Points of Difference resoundingly similar

If you watched "Difference of Opinion" on ABC TV this week (Episode 17, 8 November 2007) you may have been taken by the unanimity within the supposedly otherwise opposed panel over one thing.

Sure, there were differences, mostly over whether Australia should ratify and agree to be bound by the Kyoto Protocol immediately; or whether the Kyoto Protocol was so faulty, as to be inherently useless, and we should move on to something much more effective, such as a carbon tax, cap and trade, or strict regulation.

No, the key point of similarity in the opinion of normally warring parties was this: Something needs to be done, and we need to start doing it now. It needs to involve the wider community, not just large point emitters.

And if we don't start soon, and start making small differences immediately, consistently, and over a long period of time, we will fail to halt the relentless pace of Climate Change.

The panel agreed action is required.

They agreed this is an emergency.

Heated agreement indeed, over a global heating problem.

What would be cool, would be to get the job started.