Someone else thinks it was a 'good thing'

From back home, the Sunshine Coast Daily's Bill Hoffman has a spot-on piece about why it is fortunate that Rudd's ETS was killed off.

...it is another thing entirely to wastefully use both our share of the world’s limited resources and that of the future’s, while leaving a destroyed environment and the mess of pollution for others (our kids and grandkids) to clean up at their expense. And that is where the ETS and the prime minister have failed both the present and the future.

About our moral imperative to not take the chance that climate change is real, to act because those actions are all good for the environment, society and the economy anyway:

This is not a debate between “believers” and “sceptics”, nor even a battle between competing sciences. This is about whether we, as a nation, are smart enough to not allow the sectional and immediate interests of the present to hold absolute sway over proper consideration of the impact their imperatives have on the lives of those who will live here long after we’re gone.

And about the absurd situation we currently have where our government actually subsidised the polluters, and charges more for those people trying to reduce their contributions to the problem:

There are a myriad of emerging technologies that can more efficiently and less wastefully use limited resources, and create less waste and pollution in the process, to more than adequately satisfy our needs. They are clever, intelligent examples of our capacity to adapt, rethink and create solutions that are observant of all the elements of the problem. But they remain shut out of our markets, deemed too expensive because they accurately measure their true costs.