In any case, the question of 'what's going on' has been pretty thoroughly gone over by now until I for one am certainly becoming rather bored with it. The next question is 'what shall we do about it'? It's not an easy question to answer probably because there is no single answer, but I think it's a much more interesting discussion than 'is this really happening'.
If you were in charge - if you were the magical ruler of the world and could do anything you wanted - what would you do first and why? It's easy to carp and criticize what others are doing, but what would you do if it was up to you?
Given that we have about one decade, maybe slightly less, to turn this thing around before there's no going back, where would you start? Bear in mind, you could say things like 'ban all coal fired power stations tomorrow' but that would plunge the global economy into instant meltdown and would cause all kinds of problems, so maybe that's not the right approach.
I think a carbon tax is a necessary start. Funds raised probably DO need to go partly to recompensing the polluters initially but on a reducing regime over perhaps a decade. The bulk of funds raised should be directed towards an array of technologies depending on location. For Oz, geothermal looks good for busload poer and heavy industries (some of which may need to move location). Solar, wind and tidal all show promise and prices ARE falling. Good work on getting your blog up and running Miriam. Do make time for fun too tho', eh? Having missed you at Peters movie nights lately
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