COP26

[mancity1]

Do we need to subsidize the gas though?

We could just have agreements to keep coal in the ground and destroy the market for it besides anything that can't do without in the short term e.g. Steel coking.

Nice in principle Fode but many countries like India and China and Brazil to name but three ( haven't even started with Africa ) will need coal for electricity generation for many years to come.

Take South Africa as one example a population of 60 million and rising quickly.

Most nights 88 per cent of their electricity needs are generated by coal.

Can you imagine how much money they need to reduce that say to 50 per cent by 2050.

Some experts predict Africa's population might reach 2.5 billion by 2050.

Try getting agreements with China , India and many others that the WHO state their should be mandates world wide to bring their starving millions a standard of living 10 per cent of yours and mine.

the bigger problem is population growth and having to keep 80 per cent alive for more than 60 years by 2050.

As serious as climate change is and needs both an industrial , scientific and political solution it will mean little if our population continues to grow at the rate it is for the remainder of the century as more immigrate to all ready industrialised countries.

 

[Len Rum]

Yestrday Bojo said COP had been held in Edinburgh.
I thought it was Glasgow?
Also 'phasing down' was the same as 'phasing out' when it came to coal use.
Don't think so.
Neither did Alok or China or India.

 

[mancity1]

Yestrday Bojo said COP had been held in Edinburgh.
I thought it was Glasgow?
Also 'phasing down' was the same as 'phasing out' when it came to coal use.
Don't think so.
Neither did Alok or China or India.

Boris the king of spin , he would make Shane Warne second guess himself.

 

[vincent]

I see Prince Charles has flown to the Middle East days after lecturing people on the environment at Cop26.

 

[bluethrunthru]

I see Prince Charles has flown to the Middle East days after lecturing people on the environment at Cop26.

How is he supposed to get there? He is doing visits to Middle Eastern States to assist govt policy. Nobody bitched about Truss jetting all over the Far East to celebrate British motorcycle production moved to Singapore and that was during COP 26 whilst her boss attended telling people what they should and shouldn't do.

 

[vincent]

How is he supposed to get there? He is doing visits to Middle Eastern States to assist govt policy. Nobody bitched about Truss jetting all over the Far East to celebrate British motorcycle production moved to Singapore and that was during COP 26 whilst her boss attended telling people what they should and shouldn't do.

I can’t take anyone seriously that travels the world on a private jet. He also travels around the U.K. on a private helicopter and plane.

 

[bluethrunthru]

I can’t take anyone seriously that travels the world on a private jet. He also travels around the U.K. on a private helicopter and plane.

I can't take anybody seriously who thinks the heir to the throne should be travelling on Easy Jet and the Megabus

 

[vincent]

I can't take anybody seriously who thinks the heir to the throne should be travelling on Easy Jet and the Megabus

Me neither. Ridiculous comment.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

I can't take anybody seriously who thinks the heir to the throne should be travelling on Easy Jet and the Megabus

To be fair, he wasn’t travelling at the minimum, he was in a 290 seat Voyager that, even though it’s been converted, still emits huge amounts of CO2.

Then there’ll be the cavalcade of vehicles and odd helicopter ride, just seems a little much for somebody trying to save the planet.

Says a lot when my young kids are going vegan, using oat milk, refusing to burn wood or attend bonfires or BBQs, are we out of touch with the young, or they with us?

 

[inbetween]

To be fair, he wasn’t travelling at the minimum, he was in a 290 seat Voyager that, even though it’s been converted, still emits huge amounts of CO2.

Then there’ll be the cavalcade of vehicles and odd helicopter ride, just seems a little much for somebody trying to save the planet.

Says a lot when my young kids are going vegan, using oat milk, refusing to burn wood or attend bonfires or BBQs, are we out of touch with the young, or they with us?

You know what he could do, he could completely abolish the monarchy and become a normal pleb like the rest of us. The same thing applies to all of these celebrities, they could instantly do tons for the climate by giving up their rich lifestyles and redistributing all of their money to climate research/technology/causes.

The fact is though they aren't going to do it and they aren't going to do it just as much as I'm probably not going to give up having a steak this weekend.