As unemployment soars, the handicaps that an ETS would impose on the Australian economy are the last thing we need, writes Peter Westmore.Kevin Rudd’s promised emission trading scheme – with the Orwellian-sounding title of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) – is facing more or less inevitable defeat in the Senate.The name of the scheme is a misnomer, as it is designed to deal with Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions, not emissions of carbon, which are an entirely separate problem not dealt …
