This article looks at the advice from the government's chief environment scientist, Prof Sir Ian Boyd, on how our lifestyles will have to change in order to meet the zero net emissions of CO2 by 2050. The Professor said the public had little idea of the scale of the challenge required. - Dead right here.
He warned that persuasive political leadership was needed to carry the public through the challenge. - The challenge is: can they persuade people to pay large sums in taxes, transport and energy costs to achieve something that will have no effect on the world's CO2 emissions or the temperature or the weather.
He warned that persuasive political leadership was needed to carry the public through the challenge. - The challenge is: can they persuade people to pay large sums in taxes, transport and energy costs to achieve something that will have no effect on the world's CO2 emissions or the temperature or the weather.
He went on to say, "Emissions won't be reduced to Net Zero while ministers are fixed on economic growth measured by GDP, instead of other measures such as environmental security and a relatively stable climate". - Does he want to see GDP fall? If so he will get a permanent recession. Does he really believe the climate has ever been stable? Why should the opinion of a biologist be worth as much as Prof John Christy, a leading expert who has studied the climate for thirty years?
Asked why the UK should take the lead when China's emissions are so high, he answered that the Chinese government was very worried about the climate and was taking it very seriously. A pity that question wasn't followed up robustly by asking "Why, in that case, are they building hundreds of coal-fired power stations?"
He also said, "We certainly won't be able to travel so much as we have in the past, so we have to get used to using modern communications methods. - But doesn't he realise that tourism is a massive industry and is essential for many poorer countries to survive?
"Moving material round the planet will be more difficult so we'll have to do more with 3D printing; that sort of thing. - Such shallow thinking! We'll print 30,000 bananas shall we?How does he think trade will continue? He is sounding like a slightly paler version of Extinction Rebellion. Where are all the saner voices - silenced I am afraid (at least from the BBC).
HURRAY !! At last some sense in Britain. This evil and useless idea is going to destroy us all completely. Our economy; our society; our cohesion as a nation. This is impossible to achieve and those arguing for it need to do some BASIC research into how the climate works.
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