https://yougen.co.uk/2022/01/11/coal-phase-out-cop26-the-uk-and-green-replacements/#comment-15328
This is a most helpful posting. Thank you!
One highlight for me: " ... switching from coal to biomass allows governments to meet international targets but fails to create a greener energy system or real environmental change." Exactly. We have to live more simply so that others may simply live and have a lower standard of living in consumption terms but, higher in quality of life.
It is all too easy to get indignant and sound self-righteous about MPs expenses. We wouldn't dare to do such a thing, of course, would we? The problem is that many of us do have the opportunity to claim expenses. Are we always beyond reproach?
Even if we don't claim expenses, we are all living so unsustainably that we are making the most of the system - as much as the MPs - to live it up today and to hell with tomorrow. Ripping through our one-off geological inheritance of oil, coal and gas to leave a most uncomfortable future for our descendants later this century.
I think it is only a question of degree. The richer you are, the more you are on the make, the more you are responsible for leaving less for your children and grandchildren. The more money you make, in a finite world, the more poverty you are creating for future generations. That is the uncomfortable reality for those who have to inherit the planet we are all busily trashing today with no thought for tomorrow and others!
