"Green" policies are destroying this country

Read a book called Doughnut Economics, it's very good. Basically we need to provide a certain standard of living for everyone, community, and some opportunity, all within the realm of keeping the environment safe and restoring it from the mess we made of it. This standard of living needs to be a lot different to what we have now, I would think having 3 cars in the driveway and 4 foreign holidays a year and constantly buying useless rubbish needs to be a thing of the past.

Catastrophic economic crashes are going to happen anyway, but that's because we're part of a rotten economic system that just wants to rape the sh*t out of the Earth until we've nothing left to eat but each other.

I don't think for a second we're capable of changing our ways by the way.

The economy in itself is a serious problem, it's on a crash course to nothing being left on earth.

And yet, you're the generation that has doomed the planet

The kids these days are only the way they are because your generation made them that way.

Your generation are the ones who knew about climate change since you were in your early 20s and did absolutely nothing to stop it, and in fact spend half your life trying to protect your own assets and wealth at the cost of your own children and grandchildren

You're going to be the first generation in centuries where your children will grow up in a world that is fundamentally worse than the one they were born into.

been following raworth a few years now, i know the story, thank you, its important to realise, only a small proportion of us understand these concepts, we can try sell it to others, but that to has limitations, we urgently need implement immediately noticeable policies, that give average joe and mary a break, we ve largely failed to do this to date, we ve just been p1ssing them off more and more.

yes catastrophic economic crashes will more than likely always occur, but there are plenty of ideas out there to try prevent them, or at least try prevent their overall damage, we re no where near implementing these changes, in fact we keep just defaulting to our old policies and approaches.....

What tech is that?

I wouldn't bet on it. I can't afford a EV, the public charge network is crap and I don't have somewhere to put a charger at home anyway so I'll keep driving around in my petrol car and my next car will be a petrol car as well.

I can't afford solar panels or a heat pump (hear very mixed feedback on those yokes btw) so unless there is serious government incentivisation to make these things affordable I won't be partaking and will continue to burn carbon as I have no other choice.

You are looking back at a generation and assuming current knowledge of what people knew was common knowledge. I’m a child of the 70’s and we all knew about the ozone layer I reckon through the 80’s and 90’s. That’s about the sum of it.

Now, I have read enough and listened to enough podcasts to be aware that those in charge knew a damn sight more about the harm being done (BP funded research that found harm caused by fossil fuels but decided to bin it and change the narrative).

The knowledge the average Joe had in 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s was based on what the newspapers published and not scientific papers. I’m thinking early 00’s was probably similar but it’s hard to pinpoint for me when the internet really came to the masses. You are linking your current access to data and extrapolating back the same access to previous generations. It quite simply wasn’t there.

You are also following the “divide and conquer” story as set out by those whose vast wealth is most at stake. Angry little Greta is a pawn in this story to point fingers and blame a previous generation, forgetting her world is filled with plastics from the oil industry that make it possible for her to get the message out.

Pretty much this is why I voted Green, even though I disagree with many of their policies. Combatting climate change is the challenge of our generation, and we have to act, even if we personally don't like this.

Totally Agree

The problem is that the projected temperature increases and resulting weather systems will severely impact the lives of the same billions of people regardless. I agree the changes required and the challenges are almost impossible but we can either dictate how it happens, or let the climate run wild and nature will dictate how it happens.

I see the UK have scrapped the fuel duty rise in their budget today, some sense, no chance of that here.

ah shur thats just another sign of the decline of the uk...