(07-24-2022, 08:01 AM)baggy1 Wrote: We don’t have any influence or control over any other country on the planet, we can only make decisions about the UK. We also know that the world needs to do this, so the simple answer to your question is because we should. If the rest of the world sees this as us leading the way and decides to follow us then that is good, if they don’t then at least we tried to do our bit.
One thing is certain, if every country says ‘x are worse than us, why should we bother’, then we’ll never get anywhere.
Great post and, as far as the highlighted bit is concerned, it's one of the reasons why things have been allowed to get as bad as they have up until now, countries always find a convenient excuse why they can break their promises whilst the climate crisis continues to worsen.
The situation is beyond urgent now, so anyone who thinks that nothing needs to be done or that we should carry on as we are in the hope that wondrous machines will come along in the future to sort it out for us is a prize idiot.
If people hadn't been apathetic about it for so many decades, the "doom-mongering fanatics" wouldn't be needed. As it is criticising the campaigners, rather than everyone who has allowed this calamity to occur, is beyond ridiculous.
"The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries".
You might think the above paragraph is a recent comment, but it was actually written in 1912. Everyone needs to get real about the climate emergency. It's our problem now not the next generation's - it'll be too late by then.
