Boris has released his climate change plan and the reaction to it has been interesting.
The Greens have immediately gone to their default setting of saying that the plans are not hair shirt enough. There are also some rather critical reactions from some on the Conservative side of the fence, they seem to feel that Boris has sold out and run off to join the hemp wearing, lentil eating, hippy, tree huggers.
I've had a quick peak through the plan and it seems sensible. The focus is on making the best use of natural resources, cutting wastefulness and preparing for a changing climate (man made or otherwise). Boris has been critical of some of the more hysterical environmental comments, as have I. That is not the same as disregarding everything to do with the environment.
I have long thought that we have been obsessed with only a narrow band of environmental issues. With regard to renewable energy we only hear about carbon emissions, almost never about fuel security. You don't need to be a fully paid up member of the Gaia movement to worry about how much we throw away.
We can make some big improvements without having to crucify ourselves, once we make those improvements we can look at the next step.
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James, this is a rather intemperate anti-Green tirade from you, isn't it?! Complete with tired old cliches about hairshirts and lentils, so beloved of the climate-change-denying trolls who lurk on CIF.
What Jenny (Jenny Jones, Green Assembly Member) actually said about the strategy was:
"I welcome its arrival and look forward to the companion piece, the mitigation strategy, later this year."
She then went on to point out that it was nothing new, as it is pretty much the same as the adaptation strategy prepared under the previous administration. Sounds like fair comment to me. Her full article on CIF can be seen here
Your "preparing for a changing climate (man-made or otherwise)" comment alarmed me somewhat - are you not yet convinced that the climate change we are facing is being caused by the amount of greenhouse gases human activity is pumping out?!
Hope you are enjoying your new job, BTW.
Didn't Boris do well in Beijing? I thought that now he was mayor he was going to give up the casual racism and xenophobia, but apparently he wants to project the image of London as a xenophobic, public school, upper class twit. This is exactly the image we should be trying to avoid in the run up to the Olympics.
London deserves better than the drivel he came up with in China.
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