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The Horse Shit Hypothesis
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments Yet
I recently enjoyed the Environment Agency report 50 Ways To Save The Planet, given away with the Guardian a few months back. It’s a refreshingly positive approach to climate-change pamphleteering, with the emphasis firmly on answers. It’s also a bafflingly varied smörgåsbord of solutions, ranging from the mundane - put a jumper on before you turn up the heating - to slightly mad hi-tech schemes like using giant space mirrors to reflect the Sun’s rays away from the Earth. Amidst the sci-fi technology, though, one suggestion caught my eye: No 23, for the Government to legally require one-third of all park land to be converted to “public fruit and nut orchards and community held allotments” for the production of food.
While the high-tech schemes for reducing climate change might grab many of the media headlines, ideas like this show the environmental movement at its most radical. [Read more →]
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Climate change maths
May 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments
The argument about climate change has been for so long about whether it’s actually happening, we’ve got badly behind on discussion of what to actually do about it. Consideration of what carbon emission targets should be included in any successor treaty to Kyoto, which expires in 2010, needs to begin in earnest now. But the very mindset that the green movement has had to create to get its point across makes it hard to transition to practical thought about solutions. For years, we’ve been repeating and repeating the mantra that climate change is real, is serious, and poses a real threat to civilisation and millions of lives. Now the public and politicians seem finally to be accepting the consensus, it’s a jolt to switch from doom-mongering to planning. [Read more →]
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Happy Kyoto Day!
February 16th, 2005 · No Comments Yet
After years of wrangling, the Kyoto protocol comes into legal force today. It’s the first step of a very, very long journey to avert disaster.
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