Sky news has a climate change program that is on usually after the main news explaining how we are all killing the planet.
Now the same Sky news has just been gushing about some bloke going for a joy ride into space and saying that in the future people going for joy rides into space will be a multi billion pound industry.
As far as I am concerned this dos'nt add up, as my dad used to say you can't run with both the dogs and the hares.
I know sky news are just journalists and basically scum of the earth but this is serious piss taking.
The same Sky News that sends reporters all over the world on planes and is plugged into the national grid using fossil fuel energy. If they cared about climate change then they'd pack up and shut their channel off. Instead they are part of the same thing everyone is part of nowadays, you have to be seen to be saying something about it but don't worry about actually doing anything.
The climate movement has become quite mainstream nowadays yet no-one is really doing anything personally about it, no-one has changed their behaviour and no-one is going to. They'd rather just blame governments and there you go it's someone else's problem.
The whole thing is a farce in the sense that celebrities, the media and major corporations are now doing everything they can to pin the blame on everyone else. Leonardo Di Caprio made a movie about it yet he has a carbon footprint that is quite similar to a small town. Prince Harry is the same but it didn't seem to stop him flying 5000 miles to see a statue of his mother for half an hour.
Basically, until we start to tackle the population/consumption problem then we cannot fix climate change, it's impossible. Even if we changed to 100% electric cars for example, electric car batteries still require carbon intensive mining and there will be demand for millions of them! Even if we converted wholly to solar, we'd need so many materials and work to make the panels and it's infrastructure (carbon intensive) that it'd be pointless. In the end though when we've dug every hole that can be dug, filled every field and killed every animal around it, what's the point?
Any attempt to solve this problem is self-defeating unless we tackle the only thing that matters and that's consumption. If we reduce consumption by 50% (god knows how) then that still becomes pointless if we will increase the population over time by 50%. The actual figure is more sobering, the population has increased by 900% in just 200 years.
Unfortunately, we are f*cked.