By *David Spratt *

May 5, 2009 -- Kevin Rudd's announced changes to the proposed Carbon
Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) has again split the climate movement,
and this time it's very serious, with three large, rusted-on-to-Labor
[Party] groups running cover for an appalling policy that won't
guarantee a reduction in Australian emissions for decades.

The grassroots movement which gathered in Canberra in January 2009, with
500 people and 150 groups, for the first national Climate Action Summit
and unanimously opposed the CPRS legislation, appears uniformly angry.
Sixty-six climate action groups have written to the Prime Minister Kevin
Rudd saying that: “We believe that you have abandoned your duty of care
to protect the Australian people as well as our species and habitats
from dangerous climate change.”

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