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Hilary Benn:U.K leads way with Climate Change Bill
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April 23 2008
Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for the Environment talks from the Friends of the Earth public meeting on the Climate Change Bill, as Britain is the 1st country to put forward a binding commitment to reduce carbon emissions
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added April 27 2008
If we accept that that there is major problem caused primarily by our historical activities on earth I would question how budgets, however conceived, could help. The problem exists and will continue to exist unless something other than mere budgets are applied. Taking a reality break, walk down any high street and look into any supermarket and count the number of lights (and include those in the freezers just to keep the doors clear). Take note of the spin about them working towards being carbon neutral also. And that’s just this country.What HB said in his closing remarks was highly pertinent. 6.5 billion human beings on a fragile earth. How many more in 15 years’ time? Do we simply increase the “budget” to cope?There is a reason for everything and this is my reason for responding. My theory is that if you can persuade all those affected to act for profit and for country then you have a chance of cleaning up the mess we’re in. What works here would work elsewhere. It could be the start of an energy revolution. An engineered UK export product, maybe? Something to attract new money into a flagging economy (oops, was that another reality break?)I’m working on the method but I hope those working on the budgets think again.