RE: Saving the planet16 Aug 2019 11:09
Many people support the need for action on climate change, including me, BUT what action is the question and in what timescale?
My view is that in the rush to do something we will likely do the wrong thing for the long term benefit, such as when we rushed to diesel and now rushing to electric cars (as if that is the ultimate solution, a no brainer!). So Greta says listen to climate change scientists, but what I want is for people/politicians to listen to the scientists/technologists of solutions and put billions into their research programmes, that is where the big money should be going, not just into more electric charging points.....we might find in a few years that hydrogen or something else is the solution (for cars). There are many angles to this climate change problem and not all based on reduction in fossil fuels, from population control to veggie burgers to stem cell grown meat, etc.
In the mean time I still firmly believe that there is a strong future for homegrown oil and HUR, given all the ongoing geopolitics.