BBC poll - people willing to make personal sacrifices to stop climate change
From the BBC today:
Most people say they are ready to make personal sacrifices to address climate change, according to a BBC poll of 22,000 people in 21 countries.Four out of five people say they are prepared to change their lifestyle, even in the US and China, the world's two biggest emitters of carbon dioxide.
Three quarters would back energy taxes if the cash was used to find new sources of energy, or boost efficiency.
Pretty strong results, and completely at odds with what we're hearing from Bush, etc.
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I saw that this morning as well.
...completely at odds with what we're hearing from Bush, etc.
Well, hey, what else is new? ;-)
Posted by: Page | November 5, 2007 1:58 PM
There were very similar things found in the McKinsey sponsored survey of Dutch opinion '21 minutes'.
Posted by: Martin | November 5, 2007 2:57 PM
on “geoengineering” remedies for global warming .
These types of solutions should not be exotic, they should be simple, low risk and straight forward. My recomendation is to recapture and store carbon using 'artificial forests' that don't give back carbon
Here are the steps:
1) Develop an efficient and clean (solar, wind, nuclear )carbon capturing process that transforms carbon dioxide into calcium carbonate.
2) extract the carbon dioxyde fron 1000 cubic KM per hour. This represent 1 million carbon extractors each processing 250 cubic meters per second. (This would reduce total atmosheric carbon by 0.1 % every year.
3)store de calcium carbonate on the ocean floor (where it shoud be)
The carbon extractor sounds huge but so are our carbon burning faclities. A match between the two is needed. It is as simple as that.
Posted by: Daniel Masse | November 11, 2007 6:12 PM
I propose a simpler solution:
Use existing technology to HALF the amount of energy we use.
Build solar/wind/geothermal/etc (all existing, prove technologies) instead of coal/oil/nuclear plants.
Posted by: Andrew | November 14, 2007 10:36 AM
Right Andrew,
In Tahiti we asked our governemnt to tak free green products as they unaffordable. As our islands are small enough, each could use solar to feed the cars.
Money runs the world, money.
Pat Maihota
Posted by: Patricia Maihota | November 14, 2007 5:42 PM