We had some really great threads last year, with the following four nominated for the Thread of the Year award in this January's Environment Site Awards ceremony.
It's hardly news as its been touted for months but Britain finally announced that it had failed to meet its climate change targets yesterday with no reduction in emissions since 1997.
Did you expect anything else? They're playing for political points rather than anything meaningful. Air travel escapes yet again whilst the government approves plans for airport expansions across Britain
How can you convince a government to introduce a tax that will cripple a key service that keeps the country moving? Please understand that I loath cheap air travel for its environmental footprint but there has to be an economical reason for the government to tax it- I'm just asking if anyone has a suggestion for one because the environmental reason obviously isn't enough for them.
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It's all you Britains on your computers day and night logging into TheEnvironmentSite.org that are to blame. Quick, turn off your computers and go read a book.
Did you expect anything else? They're playing for political points rather than anything meaningful. Air travel escapes yet again whilst the government approves plans for airport expansions across Britain
There are so many inconsistencies here. See: we're lying to ourselves every day.
On one level it's a shame that B-LIAR got Margaret Beckett to speak about this as Serectary of State in charge of DEFRA.
On another, I suppose I should regard the Government as a team, rather than a group of individuals in which one can be blamed for communal failures. That doesn't seem to be the way our political system works though does it. It's very much everyone for themselves, unless they happen to be married to a party donor
What's worrying is that the Blair government seem to be passing the buck on this issue. The environment depeartment insits it's in control of this issue yet I believe this report is some nine months late, primarily because of constant disputes with the industry department over carbon allocations for the next round of EU emissions trading. Heck, I even read in the budget the other week that the treasury are now interested in carbon capture schemes. Hardly within their remit I wouldn't have thought.
In addition to this dissipation of control is the fact that environmental issues remain a vote loser rather than a vote winner. Pledging to improve healthcare or education is always going to occupy short term thinking.
All this probably won't affect Britain too much within Britain itself but when Blair is travelling overseas to try and push the green message his credibility is hit. After all, if he can't keep his own house in order.
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Britain misses climate targets
There are so many inconsistencies here. See: we're lying to ourselves every day.
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