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Read Deep Adaptation by Prof Jem Bendall (sp). It's a grim read. Events in my daughter's personal life/marriage mean it now looks unlikely that I will have grandkids. I'm no longer sad about that. I fear our children's generation may be the last to live a life of peace and plenty.
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"Travelling to Brussels on the Eurostar was a prelude to it all – we passed the barbed horrors of Calais and could not help but feel the continuing strangeness of seasons that have somehow come to be detached from their archetypes."
Which planet is he living on where he thinks Calais is full of refugees fleeing climate change?!
That's the bit you latched onto? Everything's ok then!
UK target of zero net carbon by 2050 could cost £1tn.
So less money for schools, health etc.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48540004
We certainly can't afford Brexit.
I was at a climate change conference recently. Some challenging times ahead.... such as electrifying heating, and transport, reforesting 20,000 hectares in the UK and making cooling technology far more efficient.
Of course we could do these things, but China needs to stop building coal power stations, and replace them with nuclear/renewables. We may have to help in this, what with us buying their stuff, which results in much of the emissions.
So less money for schools, health etc.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48540004
We certainly can't afford Brexit.
I was at a climate change conference recently. Some challenging times ahead.... such as electrifying heating, and transport, reforesting 20,000 hectares in the UK and making cooling technology far more efficient.
Of course we could do these things, but China needs to stop building coal power stations, and replace them with nuclear/renewables. We may have to help in this, what with us buying their stuff, which results in much of the emissions.
The only reason we have apparently met our climate targets is that we have outsourced our emissions when we outsourced our manufacturing base!
Well, the fact that burning coal in power stations in the UK has dropped off dramatically is a bigger factor, as that decline in emissions is by the far the greatest overall reduction in recent years, whereas as the offshoring of manufacturing occurred much earlier. See page 11 here:
https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/CCC-2018-Progress-Report-to-Parliament.pdf
Other sectors' emissions have not really gone down, but they need to.
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