your correcting yourself there, as I was referencing Boris's speech and simply stating that we were told pretty much the same thing decades ago (I wasn't referring to nuclear armageddon) so don't let your personal bias spoil my diatribe.
I care, but my point, which you must have heard as it whistled over your head..... is that we've heard it all before, many, many ,many times.
and the end hasn't come. So all they do ratchet up the extreme rhetoric.
I'm not a climate change sceptic, how can you be ? Climate changes that's a fact. What I am is a politician and (some) scientists sceptic. As their track record isn't great.
Here's some of their greatest hits.
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-...c-predictions/
Has no one ever heard of the boy that cried wolf?
I'm all for a sensible non-sensationalist/ extremist debate on the future and what we can do and what technologies we can produce. As the debate is always around - drive less, fly less, eat less, buy less, build less - we are very resourceful and inventive mammal and I'm sure we'll work out solutions to problems.
We're heading in the right direction, but I don't agree we have to race there, or set arbitrary dates to reach certain targets.
We need to build several new nuclear plants, lets work on reducing the cost of those. Let's wait until the technology of air-source heat pumps is mature and we know they're going to work.
Let's invest in tidal power, the most overlooked renewable there is. Criminally for this island. As long as the Moon and Earth dance with each other we have a predictable power source. Invest in it. I'd rather have a tidal power plant than HS2.
This circus in Glasgow is virtue signaling of the most repulsive type, I actually agree with Greta it's all talk and no real action. Action on things that will really make a difference. Not penalising normal people for wanting to live their lives.
Caring about Climate change is a privileged position, for those that can afford to.