RE: World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns
November 10, 2011 at 7:48 am
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2011 at 7:50 am by KichigaiNeko.)
(November 10, 2011 at 7:23 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: Well, the problem would seem to me Kichi that we're not adjusting in ways that count. Buying credits does dick all. Fitting the vast majority of homes up with alternative energy sources, buying on a local level to reduce pollution from world-wide transportation, and so on just doesn't happen.
You should see my suburb SQ...wall to wall solar panels feeding back into the grid.
It does happen but there is little incentive to make it happen and when there is it is only for a very short time
Govts are more geared to taxing the populace IMHO than making lasting beneficial policy. As such they THEN can give themselves a payrise of $500,000...I wonder where THAT money came from in a "frugal, responsible budget" ?
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
