Sydney Morning Herald: Why is the Federal Government failing to live up to its promise to do something credible on climate change? The recent essay by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, in The Monthly gives a solid clue to the general problem: old school political economy. It focused on ideological division between his party and the Opposition, and spoke to the past, not the future. Neither of the old approaches is going to get us out of the mess we have created for ourselves. Symptomatic of the problem …