Date published: 2009/06/30
The BBC says:
Britain's energy systems are no longer fit for purpose, according to leading members of the UK's best-known scientific academy, the Royal Society.
A meeting of experts at the society said the government must invest hugely to create a new low-carbon economy.
And it must take on the big generating companies who dominate energy policy, participants said.
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The group's vice-chairman, Lord Redesdale, said the UK would never reach its climate change targets unless it radically improved policies on existing homes.He said: "A billion tonnes will have failed to be saved from domestic carbon emissions and this is equivalent to the CO2 pollution from Britain's aviation sector over the next 25 years.
"We can either heat our homes and have hot baths, or fly but not both. There really does need to be much tougher policies on reducing carbon emissions from the homes."
You have to be pretty dumb to say "we can either heat our homes and have hot baths, or fly but not both". Is Lord Redesdale (a Lib Dem) going to give up one or the other, now or in the future? Of course not, he just wants the peasants to do so. The Royal Society ought to put people in charge who are not so ridiculous in their world view. Unfortunately, most of the British ruling elite have this attitude, and at some point some populist leader (hopefully not some extremist nutter) is going to take advantage of the ruling elite's contempt for the ordinary people of Britain.
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