Re: A huge waste of taxpayers money.
Originally Posted by
OldGreyFox
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With all the hype that the main parties are putting out about how much money they will spend to combat climate change and becoming 'Carbon Neutral' by such and such a date, aren't they wasting
our money and should be spending it on useful projects like the NHS, education and transport etc.
I personally think we are being conned by this whole CO2 malarky, and even if you believed it might make a difference, the UK only represents 0.21% of the world's surface, so it would amount to more suffering for the British people with virtually no results whatsoever on a world scale...
The uk has a history of over estimating its importance in world
affairs OGF!
Remember King Canute?
I must agree with you that we can only have a negligable effect on
the global enviroment given our small size and the fact that we have
allready given up the use of coal, and have almost given up our
heavy industries and manufacturing base at great cost to our
so called working classes!
They say that as the4th or 5th largest economy in the world we
should do more for the enviroment? But they forget that our
economy size is measured by our consumption, not production,
therefore it would make more sense to limit our consumption in order
to cut emissions etc??
Regards Donkeyman!
This would have the further benefit of improving our balance of
payments problems as well?