Editorial
This editorial is being written on the day after the spill in parliament and following the decision of the government to downgrade the National Energy Guarantee (NEG) as the countries energy policy. Perhaps this analysis is water-under-the bridge given all that is happening but here is our two-bobs worth.
One of the interesting components of the NEG debate was how the environment and finances were set in opposition with each other. Economics and ecology (environment) are what we call binary opposites and in that sense they lie in opposition to each other. What tends to happen with binary opposites is that people often employ a dualistic thinking habit and select one component and dismiss the other. What we end up with is all of something and nothing of something else ... continue reading.
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