THE time to act on climate change is now, says an editorial in Australia’s The Age:
If society is to confront climate change, it must change its behaviour and the way it conducts business. It has to adapt. If there is one thing that humankind has shown, it is its ability to do just that, which is why investment in research and development is so vital. Never has the importance of human ingenuity and invention been more relevant. This is where political parties enter the room and, hopefully, their leaders switch on the lights.
Spotter: Tim Blair
Posted: 1st, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Global Warming Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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August 2nd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
As long as there’s oil in the ground, the fuckers in the petrochemical industry are gonna keep burning it, and charge as much as they can for it. We won’t get the free energy we deserve and are capable of harnessing until they’ve found a way to monopolise it and link the cost to the price of oil. Tesla is probably turning in his grave.
We should all do our bit to bring about a materially sustainable form of society, for which we share collective responsibility, but being forced to focus on, and pay for, reduction of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions is distracting us from a myriad of other environmental and intellectual problems posed by our current way of life. We can’t solve these issues without a top-down aswell as a bottom-up approach, and big business is at the top looking down, deciding which group of people to exploit next. And the people at the bottom are overweight and complaining about the price of free range chickens. We would all be moronically patting ourselves on the back if we were still physically capable of performing such feats of suppleness. God it makes me miserable to think about it. Think I’m gonna go punch a Great Crested Newt in the face or something.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Fine! We will adapt and be more and more innovative.
But let us not be taxed to death and blamed for the actual causes of The Warming.
So I need 30 fighter-jets, four cruise-liners and a new airpot at the end of my road.
Fuck! I’ve left my mobile charger on and forgot to switch the tv off at source. I am so irresponsible.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
the atmosphere will no doubt be electric…..