The ‘miracle’ technologies already exist: wind, water, solar, geothermy. What is lacking is the willingness to carry them through at high pace. As you say, the general public don’t care, and so, people like Trump, who represents the oil and gas industry, keep getting into power.
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For me we need something that just replaces oil, petrol for the normal person. In the US they still want to drive their 5L v8 truck with fuel at however many cents a gallon it was 10 years ago.
We really need spmething that offers that cheaper and easier. Even then it would be a battle. Hydrogen for example blows up with MTG on board. Not quite well enough it seems.
The grip oil has on politics, business, even peoples thinking needs to change somehow.
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Even now? I thought it was a Soviet legacy.
They are still a strong chess nation. Finished 8th in the recent Olympiad. They have some strong players, not sure about their juniors though.
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Just saw a snippet of Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev speech.
Kinda farcical this Cop gathering anyway.
Big players missing and the last 2 years the venues have been UAE and Azerbaijan
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At least that way you know the delegates are committed. The one in Bali was dodgy that way.
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More good news.
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It would be nice to see a map of where the most changes are being made
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Couldn’t be more obvious could it
But we now have Musk playing games that its ok because we can still breathe until you get to a certain co2 saturation level.
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Leaving this out of the UK politics thread because I think it’s rather pertinent to focus on a bigger problem – I think the inadequacy of public warning systems stretches beyond the UK. I wonder how much of it can be attributed to out-of-date models, i.e. the impacts are now far heavier than would be forecasted based on previous history, and how much of it is because of the warnings themselves not being received seriously enough by the public.
In this case it seems to be largely the former, but yet there are still also cases where people will ignore travel warnings and travel anyway, or just be generally unaware.
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Lack of sufficient funding for defences was something I remember being a frequent complaint under the conservative government over the last 5 years or so.
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I don’t think that’s unique to the Conservative government, although that doesn’t make it any better.
I’ve been reading quite a lot of articles on flood management and land management in general, and the feeling I get is simply that if you’re thinking about flood defences, you’re already doing something wrong, much like that Maldini (?) quote about making a tackle.
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