There are huge problems with how Australia, and some other parts of the world are framing and and talking about the problems produced by overconumption, overpopulation and unsustainable practices. First of all global warming tends to get assimilated into the more innocuous term of climate change, then reduced to the notion of carbon outputs/carbon footprint - one of the wankiest terms ever. First of all, with regard to for instance the meat industry (I am vegan), methane and nitrous oxide are far of far more concern and made invisible with the dominance of carbon fetishism. Secondly, the hemphasis should be on the 'underneath' question of how we organise our societies to produce these problems - so - sustainable and cruelty-free food production, population control, checks on consumer greed and the cancer of economic growth and the localisation of services etc - instead we have a tinkering approach which leaves the prime movers of the problems - agribusiness, meat producers, economic rationalism and globalisation and their bastard child economic growth unquestioned - at least by most governments. These problems have certainaly been dealt with by experts such as Herman Daly, Ian Lowe and others. Lets not let the ignorant men in suits that govern us hide things under the carpet with their use of language because they are too afraid of not getting in for another few years