The Stern Report

[rhythmaning]

How are people feeling about the Stern report?

I had expected that they'd be more journal-chatter about it, especially knowing the leanings of many on my f-list.

I am not sure that I can really get worked up about it, other than to feel a smug "told you so" (which won't stop me drowning, will it?).

I hope it translates into a bit more action.

Of course, I haven't read it - jeez, it comes into at 600 pages or something - but it has been all over the papers today.

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[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I got to the bit about the EU, the USA, India and China acting in co-operation and went out and bought an aqualung.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Oh, that gallows humour...

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Well seriously. Have you heard the one about the iron ore that's mined in W.Virginia, shipped to a steel mill in China for processing and then exported back to the USA as finished steel? All this, of course, to circumvent pollution controls on US steel mills.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me of the way that ships are transported from Europe to Bangladesh to be broken up because the regulations deem it necessary; and in Bangladesh, they are broken by workers without any protection.

Clearly, it is a crazy world.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Well once my Impreza falls apart, I'll buy new tyres for my bike - there was some nyaff on radio 4 today saying that he'd decided not to fly to China and incur all that carbon debt, but cycled instead - apparently it took a year for him to get there, and a year to get back. Well we didn't miss the smug little git (I really shouldn't watch Grumpy Old Men, it only encourages me).

Basically, I think it's up to us to dig our way out of the pit by coming up with better tech, and I believe we will - but then I'm an old Utopian at heart.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Yeah I heard about that guy too - but I think he was trying to prove a point... They said it took him one month on the bike for every hour he would have spent in a plane. Would have been a hell of a trip, though!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Actually, I wish him well (now that the Alsace has worn off) and am jealous that he could take two years off to do it.

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

edited highlights here (http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1935211,00.html)

[matgb]

Yeah, it's sort of overkill + alrady knew most of it really. Still, nice to have some costings to wave at USians that still think it's a myth.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

More or less my views, too.

Me, I'm going to move to higher ground...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Moral or physical?