Very strong “revising the day before an exam” energy from world leaders when it comes to climate change. If we’d started 20yrs ago we’d be sitting pretty.
“Do more”. The easy virtue signal for people who don’t have to deliver.
We’re all being priced out and taxed to death already. What would a wartime footing mean in this case? Suddenly dropping fossil fuels would just cost the people even more. At a time when some people are struggling to heat their homes this is a terrible idea.
We’re slowly increasing our use of renewables, it may be we started too late, but its a start. Suddenly overhauling everything would be a further massive betrayal of people on lower incomes.
It’s easy to sit on the sideline and make yourself look good by saying ” do more”. Do they have an actual plan on how to “do more”? A way of doing it without plunging people into poverty? Or do they just have buzzwords and war rhetoric?
Yet the Welsh Government (that Plaid are in a cooperation agreement with) owns Cardiff Airport and if given half a chance would cut air passenger duty to get more people flying.
So are they going to shut the oil and gas terminal at Milford Haven then?
Climate change is here now. It is not comfortable for people to admit but the seasons have definitely changed and more extreme weather events will become the norm, with ever-increasing frequency as time goes on. The writing was on the wall decades ago, yet successive governments kicked the can down the road and global climate summits failed to deliver anything meaningful at the same time. A wartime footing is the only solution now, however even that is far too late to save us.
Why wasn’t this a thing a decade or two ago?!
Why is this even news? The UK is, arguably, the country where it is easiest to shift to a fully renewable energy infrastructure. We have abundant wind power, wave power, tidal power, hydroelectric power and, in some parts of the country, solar and geothermal capacity. While I have my reservations about nuclear for various reasons, it’s still better than using hydrocarbons. We’re also a rich country with the capital and technical expertise to do it.
And not just producing power, but improving building standards on new-build homes and commercial properties as well as retrofitting older buildings so our demands for energy are reduced.
It’s just maddening.
This letter is completely correct:
>“Decarbonising the economy will actually cost less than maintaining our dirty, outdated energy system,” the letter says.
There is far less to go wrong in a renewable energy system. You aren’t relying on a complicated system of imports and exports, and the generators are simpler. Asides from routine maintenance, there’s very little you need to do. It’s more efficient.
The sooner we do it, the sooner we reap the rewards. Better quality housing and locally produced energy means people have more disposable income to buy stuff that is beneficial for the wider economy.
It needs to stop being a political issue and a purely pragmatic issue.
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Very strong “revising the day before an exam” energy from world leaders when it comes to climate change. If we’d started 20yrs ago we’d be sitting pretty.
“Do more”. The easy virtue signal for people who don’t have to deliver.
We’re all being priced out and taxed to death already. What would a wartime footing mean in this case? Suddenly dropping fossil fuels would just cost the people even more. At a time when some people are struggling to heat their homes this is a terrible idea.
We’re slowly increasing our use of renewables, it may be we started too late, but its a start. Suddenly overhauling everything would be a further massive betrayal of people on lower incomes.
It’s easy to sit on the sideline and make yourself look good by saying ” do more”. Do they have an actual plan on how to “do more”? A way of doing it without plunging people into poverty? Or do they just have buzzwords and war rhetoric?
Yet the Welsh Government (that Plaid are in a cooperation agreement with) owns Cardiff Airport and if given half a chance would cut air passenger duty to get more people flying.
So are they going to shut the oil and gas terminal at Milford Haven then?
Climate change is here now. It is not comfortable for people to admit but the seasons have definitely changed and more extreme weather events will become the norm, with ever-increasing frequency as time goes on. The writing was on the wall decades ago, yet successive governments kicked the can down the road and global climate summits failed to deliver anything meaningful at the same time. A wartime footing is the only solution now, however even that is far too late to save us.
Why wasn’t this a thing a decade or two ago?!
Why is this even news? The UK is, arguably, the country where it is easiest to shift to a fully renewable energy infrastructure. We have abundant wind power, wave power, tidal power, hydroelectric power and, in some parts of the country, solar and geothermal capacity. While I have my reservations about nuclear for various reasons, it’s still better than using hydrocarbons. We’re also a rich country with the capital and technical expertise to do it.
And not just producing power, but improving building standards on new-build homes and commercial properties as well as retrofitting older buildings so our demands for energy are reduced.
It’s just maddening.
This letter is completely correct:
>“Decarbonising the economy will actually cost less than maintaining our dirty, outdated energy system,” the letter says.
There is far less to go wrong in a renewable energy system. You aren’t relying on a complicated system of imports and exports, and the generators are simpler. Asides from routine maintenance, there’s very little you need to do. It’s more efficient.
The sooner we do it, the sooner we reap the rewards. Better quality housing and locally produced energy means people have more disposable income to buy stuff that is beneficial for the wider economy.
It needs to stop being a political issue and a purely pragmatic issue.