Hot Planet Cool Party

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Hot Planet - Cool Party!

• A political quiz for the pundits

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Are the buzzers ready?

• Fantastic prizes to be won

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You can win - a cool planet!
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- survival of the species!
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- no mass extinction!
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Question One

• Which party scored top in climate change policy
  in mid-2007, as judged by the Vote Climate
  website?

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Question Two

• Which party aims for a 60 emissions reduction
  by 2020, and a 90 emissions reduction by 2030?

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Question Three
Kyoto Protocol participation map 2005

• Who says we must
• Ratify the Kyoto Treaty

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• Set up a further international treaty to meet a
  global target of 90 emissions reduction by 2030?
• Prioritise cutting rich nations emissions?

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Question Four

• Who wants to
• start the transition to a zero-waste economy
  now?

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• Establish an industrial energy auditing
  department recommending laws to end energy waste,
  including improving or banning wasteful consumer
  products?

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Question Five

• Who advocates setting a minimum 10-star energy
  efficiency rating for all new buildings?

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• And who would require the fitting of all
  feasible energy efficiency measures to existing
  houses over time, subsidising owner-occupiers for
  the costs?

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Whats that? Sorry, I missed your answer you
said Tweedledum? Or did you say
Tweedledummer?
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Just as well, madam that was entirely
incorrecton to question 6
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• Who wants to bring all power industries under
  public ownership and democratic control?
• and who wants to begin phasing out coal mining
  and power immediately?

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• ...and who thinks we need a change plan for
  coalmining and power-station communities, with
  new sustainable industries built in their areas?

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• Question 7 Who thinks we should put the car
  industry under public control, and then refit it
  for making wind turbines, public transport
  vehicles, solar hot water, solar thermal and
  photo-voltaic cells.

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• and for converting cars to electric power?

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• Who advocates the immediate construction of wind
  farms in suitable areas?

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• along with funding research into renewables
  like wind, geothermal, solar thermal, waste
  biomass, wave and tidal generation

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• to create a power grid with distributed,
  diversified electricity generation for stability
  and efficiency?

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• Whats that? The Dems? The Greens? No, my
  friend but well give you another try three
  more questions - theres quite a lot at stake!

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• Question 8 Who will push for the end of
  industrial farming based on fossil fuel
  fertilisers, pesticides, and fuels?

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• And who wants to restrict farming areas to make
  sure that rivers, forests and indigenous
  ecosystems return to health?

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• And who understands that farmers have to be
  helped to transfer to organic practices, that
  city dwellers need to begin urban farming, and
  all this done carefully to guarantee food and job
  security?

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• And which research team was it that finally put
  paid to the climate sceptics with this
  groundbreaking evidence?

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• Question 9 Who calls for a halt to logging
  old-growth forests, and for the start of an
  urgent program of reforestation in the face of
  climate change?

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• And now for the final question, number 10
• Who wishes to make all urban and regional public
  transport free, and to upgrade the network so
  people use it for all regular commuting?

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• who wants to move as much freight as possible
  to a newly-electrified national rail system?
• .. and to require public transport and freight to
  run on electric motors or biofuels from waste,
  where possible?

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• and lastly, who wants to encourage bicycle use
  through more cycleways, and cheap bicycle rental
  networks, as in some European cities?

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• Yes! Well done! You guessed it!
• It is, indeed, the Socialist Alliance!

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• You have won a free trip to Species Survival
  Land!
• Just go via this website, and youll get there..
• http//www.socialist-alliance.org/

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• while youre travelling, you can read their
  whole Climate Change Charter at
• http//www.socialist-alliance.org/resources/
• SA_climate_change_charter.pdf
• Thanks for playing we knew youd do it!

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• and dont forget please vote 1 Socialist
  Alliance in these elections -

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• There is a world to win!

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Play your part in Being Cool please pass on to
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• Authorised by Dick. Nichols, 23 Abercrombie St,
  Chippendale, NSW 2008.