Peter Cavanagh, Middle Ridge, Qld
Retirement more than simply slippers and golf
I am fed up with checking out individuals who have actually selected to continue working describing retirement as using slippers and playing golf (” Super at crossroads”, December 17-18).
Choosing to continue working is an option and the bulk– and it is a bulk– of individuals who remain in a monetary position to retire and live off superannuation lead extremely efficient community-based lives and have no concept what slippers are and have actually never ever set foot on a golf course.
I check out The Australian Financial Review every day and do not anticipate to need to check out the supercilious meanderings of an individual who believes due to the fact that he is continuing to work that he is in some way more intellectual than those who have not.
Dawn Vanderhorst, Wantirna South, Vic
Response to Crimea pushed Putin
The function post (” Russia’s war strategies reveal a series of errors beginning with Putin”, December 19) was outstanding. Vladimir Putin’s disgraceful 2022 land grab for all of Ukraine need to undoubtedly have actually been motivated by the futile Western management’s response to his earlier effective conquest of Crimea in 2014.
The reactions of both previous president Barack Obama and previous German chancellor Angela Merkel were pitiful.
The United States used some half-hearted financial sanctions and Merkel continued to pursue policies of increasing Germany’s energy reliance on Russian gas products.
It comes as not a surprise that Putin should have felt pushed to attack Ukraine.
Dennis Walker, North Melbourne, Vic
Ukraine a cautioning to environment warriors
Cruel, mad and aggressive Putin comprehends that knocking out Ukraine’s electrical energy supply will trigger tremendous damage and challenge instantly.
But still our federal government, agitated by Greens and teals, remains in rejection and appear hellbent on utilizing unverified (other than for unreliability) energy sources for our primary supply.
Just seeing the unpredictability in sewage, supply of water, food, healthcare facilities, schools, and so on, in Ukraine must suffice for all, other than single-minded environment warriors, for a big wake-up call.
However, if thanking Putin for shining the light is far too repugnant, then Europe and the USA, both of which are revealing much more obligation in this regard, are appropriate options.
Gordon Thurlow, Launceston, Tas
Fossil fuel business should listen to the UN
At the current 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 27), Antonio Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, stated: ‘Greenhouse gas emissions keep growing, international temperature levels keep increasing, and our world is quick approaching tipping points that will make environment turmoil irreparable.
We are on a highway to environment hell with our foot still on the accelerator.”
Are the leaders of fossil-fuel-burning corporations in Australia familiar with the mayhem they have, and will trigger, by continuing to disregard duplicated cautions originating from the United Nations that burning nonrenewable fuel sources to produce energy, which causes the release into the environment of greenhouse gas emissions, need to stop.
Brian Measday, Myrtle Bank, SA
‘ Green’ methanol is not the response for shipping
Shipping, like air travel, isn’t covered by the Paris arrangement since of the trouble in associating its emissions to private countries.
On impressions, making “green methanol from renewables-based hydrogen” to assist the shipping market minimize emissions sounds great (” Spanish giant signs up with $1.7 b green methanol task in Tasmania”, December 20).
But as typical, the devil remains in the information. Compared to fuel or diesel, the combustion of methanol produces no nitrogen oxide, sulphur oxide emissions and less co2 therefore it is a cleaner fuel, however it not emissions-free.
While green hydrogen will be produced utilizing renewables and integrated with carbon to make the methane, utilizing “forestry wood waste” as the carbon source is ecologically bothersome.
The federal government has actually just recently gotten rid of native forest wood waste from the Renewable Energy Target for ecological factors, so probably, wood from plantations would be the source.
Even then, the carbon is utilized faster than it can be regrown so the procedure launches carbon now that– due to the fact that of tree development rates– would not be secured once again for years.
For numerous factors, zero-emitting ammonia is seen by numerous in the shipping market as the most practical fuel alternative, and a consortium of business was just recently given EU moneying to set up the world’s very first ammonia-powered fuel cell on a vessel in 2023.
Ray Peck, Hawthorn, Vic
Has Bowen got it incorrect for the 2nd time?
Chris Bowen has actually struck a handle the states and areas to put a cap on gas and coal rates, in spite of vociferous objections from the gas business.
He’s the exact same chap who, as shadow treasurer for then opposition leader Bill Shorten, mishandled the celebration’s tax policies, which was to a big degree the reason that the Labor Party lost the election. Will lightning strike two times and will this policy do the exact same damage to Anthony Albanese?
Coke Tomyn, Camberwell, Vic