Thank you Richard for a well thought-out post. I don't agree with everything but I don't have time to dissect it in detail and no-one is going to want to read through it anyway. The big elephant in the room (mammoth in the room?) in the whole climate change issue is population. None of the sticky issues of resources, emissions and pollution would be problematical if they existed on a small scale. But we are trying to service a world population that has been growing exponentially since the early 20th century. The world population has more than doubled in just my lifetime! That is just totally unsustainable and either humanity has to find a way of de-populating in an orderly manner or nature will do it for us (and that won't be pretty).
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