Media Release
Mark Butler MP.
Shadow Minister for EnvironmentClimate Change and Water
Joe Hockey’s astounding ignorance of the
facts about Australia continued to be on display in London today when he
laughed at a BBC journalist who said Australia was the biggest carbon
emitter per capita in the OECD.
The Treasurer said such a comment was ‘absolutely ridiculous’.
“What’s ridiculous is that Australia’s Treasurer
doesn’t know this about Australia,” Shadow Climate Change Minister Mark
Butler said.
“The nation’s most senior economic leader has
embarrassed himself on international TV over a fact most school students
would know.
The latest OECD Greenhouse Gas Emissions Index ranks Australia as the highest emitter per capita, leading Canada, the United States and nearly three times higher than the EU.
“So far Joe Hockey’s contributions to the global
climate change debate have included petty remarks about wind turbines’
aesthetics, refusing to put climate change on the G20 agenda and now
rejecting unambiguous facts about our carbon pollution as ‘ridiculous’.
“It just goes to show how this Government does not
take climate change seriously. Climate change is an economic issue as
much as it’s an environmental issue and Australia’s Treasurer should
have at least a fundamental understanding of that,” Mr Butler said.
“This Treasurer’s ignorance is ‘absolutely ridiculous’,” Mr Butler said.
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