In 40 years of writing and speaking up for Climate compliant policies and practices, only half a dozen people have written or verbally encouraged me to think I was on the right lines. This has been, particularly, in relation to my suggestions that it is not a good idea to turn our urban railway lines into roads, buildings of all descriptions and tramways. Simply reinstate the commuter, regional and intercity trains, at a fraction of the price and weight of GHG emissions from doing tramways, in particular.
Do I have that right, in your opinion?
If so, have you ever written to customerservices@wmca.org.
suggesting anything in our eleven point list that would lessen the Climate Emergency rather than accelerating it?
Have either of you dished out our paper version of 11 WMCC Action Points, as I have done, to the senior decision making team at WMCA (and others)?
Have you ever attended council or committee meetings to speak in the public forum item on the agenda or, tried to engage in polite conversation with members or officers in an effort to get over to them the 11 action points of practical things they should be doing?
What is so alarming is that in the 1960s when I was at secondary school, we were taught that there were 300 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. Now, in the 2020s it is 425 ppm. This is a staggering increase. Even more so in the geological time scale. Are we turning Earth into an uninhabitable Venus that is further from the sun than Mercury but is hotter because of its 96.5% concentration of CO2 in its atmosphere?
"breathing (the thing that gets CO2 out of your body and O2 into your body) only functions properly where there is a really really large difference between the CO2 concentration in your blood and the CO2 concentration in the air."
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