Thursday, 11 July 2019

Lip Service?

It seems that the UK Government response to climate change is to 'kick it into the long grass' by coming up with aspirations to make changes in emissions in the future (often well after the people making the 'pledge' will have stepped down from the scene but enabling the country to boast of being 'world leaders' in decarbonisation). It seems more pertinent to note the opinion of the Committee for Climate Change who appear convinced that there are actually no meaningful plans for dealing with heatwave or flooding crisis events in the country (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/10/uks-preparation-for-climate-crisis-like-dads-army ).
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