Exactly. In 30 years time our kids will be asking us why we just sat back and accepted it. If any of us are still around.
Yeap, my grandkids will be asking me, what the f**k were you all doing early in the century.
Punk IPA is actually carbon negative so the most effective way to reduce your footprint is to drink more of this beer.
That would require UK plc to put up the capital investment. That is not an option so private capital takes the risk in order to earn the return, which is selling at market prices. There are other factors such as the grades of crude needed by UK refineries. Basically it is not as simple as you suggest and your suggested solution would run at a huge loss to the taxpayer which would come at the cost of massive tax rises or massive spending cuts. We as consumers have to pay market prices for our energy and in fact we should in order to incentivize the energy transition.
Right now fossil fuel giants are still getting tax breaks for new exploration in UK waters, what happens if every country does the same to extract every last drop?
Well said.
"Well Timmy, we couldn't really do anything because we had shoes and phones and other stuff that was made of oil. Sorry though."
A common denominator in most of these protestors is that they are rich. It's easier to say that we must give up a car if you have two cars. People who only have one car are less keen.
Its not about stopping local access to oil and gas, its about stopping new exploration and providing the subsides to it. Maybe its time for a State owned energy company with a focussed on renewables that give us energy security and price stability.
I think you're a touch optimistic there. Most people in this country are not willing to materially lower their living standards in a bid to cut emissions, and the rest of the world won't cut theirs unless and until their living standards have caught up with ours.
I actually don't think we need to materially lower our living standards, but we are going to have to change the way we live and things as they stand are not sustainable. Infact it is inaction that will ultimately make us poorer.
why isnt the campaign "Stop using oil" and using the publicity to list products we should stop using. tell people how they can share things or reuse rather than buying new, which non-carbon based insulation materials are best, stop flying, etc. by stopping demand, we'd reduce the production.
2017
All problems affect the poor first. But I'm not talking about the starving poor, I'm talking about the one-holiday-a-year poor. Persuading someone that if they never go on holiday with their children will be better for the children than if they have a fortnight in Spain, is not easy. (Well, impossible.) Persuading the rich that they can go to London for a week and only go abroad twice instead of three times; that can be done. Persuading someone that their one holiday should be in Scarborough instead of Majorca - harder to do.
They’ll probably have very good tans if nothing else, TB.
