Rav Casley Gera

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 →]

Numbers are flying, people are shouting, and protestors are waving banners. Nuclear is back on the agenda, and it isn’t a pretty sight. Some environmentalists are furious, calling the Government’s endorsement of a new generation of nuclear power stations a betrayal, and those who see nuclear as necessary seeing the others as misguided and deluded. The anti-nuclear lobby squeal repeatedly about the danger, about Chernobyl, about Five Mile Island, and about the threat of waste. Those in favour of new builds repeat, endlessly, that without nuclear we cannot meet our future energy needs. Repeat ad infinitum. [Read more →]