Comments on: Time to Boycott Australian Goods and Services? https://grahamclements.com/time-to-boycott-australian-goods-and-services/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=time-to-boycott-australian-goods-and-services Writer, blogger, and dreamer. Thu, 28 Nov 2024 17:33:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/time-to-boycott-australian-goods-and-services/#comment-1218 Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:50:39 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/time-to-boycott-australian-goods-and-services/#comment-1218 Major Export Markets For Australian Coal (2008–2009)
Japan 39.8% Korea 16.3%
Taiwan 9.9% China 9.5% India 9.4%
Europe 7.9%

So if I wanted to boycott Australian coal, I would be safer to just buy stuff from Africa, Bagladesh, South America, North America, Denmark, France (nuclear powered), and much of Asia (except China, India and Korea).

But probably the best way to both punish Australia for its rising greenhouse gases and abolishing the carbon tax, is to also reward countries that are doing something about climate change, by buying from countries that are reducing their greenhouse gasses, or have very low per capitia emmissions. Of those I will try not to buy from countries that use a lot of Australian coal or aluminium ingots. This may take a while to work out and will be a continual work in progress. But it is time to boycott Australia's greenhouse gas intensive products.

]]> By: graywave https://grahamclements.com/time-to-boycott-australian-goods-and-services/#comment-1219 Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:49:02 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/time-to-boycott-australian-goods-and-services/#comment-1219 This particular boycott is a hard road to plough! I wonder how much Chinese aluminium is smelted using coal bought from Australia!

]]> By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/time-to-boycott-australian-goods-and-services/#comment-1223 Fri, 18 Jul 2014 10:00:16 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/time-to-boycott-australian-goods-and-services/#comment-1223 It seems, from my initial reading, that China relies mostly on its own smelted aluminium, and smelting is were most of the electricity is used in production of aluminium, so I might be safe just buying aluminium products made in China. I discovered that 79% of Australia's smelted aluminium is exported.

]]> By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/time-to-boycott-australian-goods-and-services/#comment-1224 Fri, 18 Jul 2014 06:56:42 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/time-to-boycott-australian-goods-and-services/#comment-1224 So it might be hard to tell where the raw materials for an aluminium product came from. I just had a look at a box of aluminuim foil and it gave no indication where it was made. This requires more research. Must find out where our aluminium ingots go to.

]]> By: graywave https://grahamclements.com/time-to-boycott-australian-goods-and-services/#comment-1225 Fri, 18 Jul 2014 05:11:17 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/time-to-boycott-australian-goods-and-services/#comment-1225 Good onya, Graham. I hadn't thoiught about boycotting goods from my own country but it's not a bad idea.

It could be a bit problematic as we export mostly raw materials or only very lightly processed products (for example, aluminium is refined here into ingots and shipped overseas (where others then turn it into aluminium foil). It would take some research to find out where all those high-carbon Aussie products end up and which manufactured goods don't start off as Aussie metals, coal, gas, etc..

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