Link Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank This is a summary. A link to the full report is in the summary. It is just that – a Risk Assessment – and presents a picture of what will happen if CO2 emissions are not halted. It should be seen as a lead in to COP… Continue reading Climate change risk assessment 2021
Category: Environment & Climate Change
Can we get out of trouble?
Paul Jay of the Real News says we are in trouble He is right of course but there is more to it…I watch the cars crawling thru the city in the oppressive heat and think how temporary, foolish and illusory all this fossil fuel consumption is: it is just plain stupid. But then I have… Continue reading Can we get out of trouble?
China and a Carbon Tax
Gwynne Dyer writes that the Chinese government is to impose a carbon tax. This has to be very good news indeed: it will put pressure on every government that has avoided action using the excuse that China has not moved seriously on the question. It is a matter of survival for the Chinese as it… Continue reading China and a Carbon Tax
(de)Occupy – many demands
About a month ago when all the demands were being made by the media to know the “demands” of the Occupy Movement I wrote these which are really my own demands. I still think they may be quite good apart from one rather glaring omission which I will add now by saying that we should… Continue reading (de)Occupy – many demands
Alternatives to the Tar Sands
Read the entry below from wikipedia and weep. Our lack of political will astounds me. There really is nothing preventing us from moving forward with this, (and other things like concentrating solar energy with storage), except shareholders marriage to profits from fossil fuel companies, to nuclear fetishism, to weapons, and to market worship enshrined in… Continue reading Alternatives to the Tar Sands