So the Orange Gibbon claims Climate Change is a scam on the very day the effects of it are being seen in Typhoon Ragasa.
Better show him the videos...
Showing posts with label Climate Crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Climate Crisis. Show all posts
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Orange Gibbon Alerts #2
Thursday, 27 February 2025
Monday, 25 July 2022
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Sunak and Climate Change
So. It is day after the hottest weather on record in the UK. Far worse than 1976.
Exactly the day for Sunak to announce a continuation of the Tory ban on onshore windfarms, if he become PM.
#AnyoneButATory
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Tuesday, 5 November 2019
Not a Drill
A book I very much enjoyed reading this September was "This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook".
It's still out there. Bright Pink. Buy a copy.
As well as campaigning advice, and explanations (partial, to be honest) about the degree of climate risk, there are number of essays, including one by Caroline Lucas and a very good one (I thought) by Labour MP Clive Lewis. ('A Green New Deal' - it's chapter 26).
But no contributions at all by any Tory, Brexit, DUP, or even SNP or Lib Dem politician.
Which is disappointing, to say the least.
Zero-Carbon Trade: Saving the Planet
If we aim to save the planet, surely the last thing we want is more overseas trade. Instead we should be investing in low- and zero-carbon food and goods, produced and consumed locally, and preferably owned locally too.
Following this logic, if/when we Leave the EU, rather than focus on new trade deals, we should apply tariffs based on the total carbon footprint of the inbound products. No offsetting, and including all components. This will, I suspect, require regulation going beyond current EU rules, and we should welcome that.
This is a challenge for Remainers also. The free movement of goods is one of the EU's bedrock 'four freedoms,' and I have never seen an analysis of the carbon cost of that 'freedom'. It will admittedly be difficult to move the bloc to zero carbon trade. But if that can be achieved it would be far better for the earth than the UK going it alone. And, remaining, we could veto new deals with distant parts of the world.
Eventually, we may have ultra-low carbon mass transport (airships? yachts?), but we don't have them now, and we need to act urgently.
Following this logic, if/when we Leave the EU, rather than focus on new trade deals, we should apply tariffs based on the total carbon footprint of the inbound products. No offsetting, and including all components. This will, I suspect, require regulation going beyond current EU rules, and we should welcome that.
This is a challenge for Remainers also. The free movement of goods is one of the EU's bedrock 'four freedoms,' and I have never seen an analysis of the carbon cost of that 'freedom'. It will admittedly be difficult to move the bloc to zero carbon trade. But if that can be achieved it would be far better for the earth than the UK going it alone. And, remaining, we could veto new deals with distant parts of the world.
Eventually, we may have ultra-low carbon mass transport (airships? yachts?), but we don't have them now, and we need to act urgently.
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