Quote Originally Posted by rolymiller View Post
As usual one of remain reasons whynowt is seriouslybeen d one is because money talks for the wealthy. Gfires pal Mr trump, the US being the biggest contributor to greenhouse gases, won't even attend summits on the problem now.
That depends upon how you define wealthy. Earlier this year, you explained that your view of having enough money included being able to take a decent holiday every year (I paraphrase, but it was something like that) - in other words a strictly unnecessary use of fossil fuels (unless you meant a walking holiday based at your home). That's the real problem, which is that dealing with climate change means having a significant impact upon what people expect for their lives. The announcement yesterday indicated that we should greatly reduce or curtail our meat consumption - how many people will readily buy into that do you think?

In other words, the real problem is democracy. Given the impact that actually doing something about climate change will have as opposed to simply pontificating about it means that it is unlikely that any democratic government will be able to act on it to any significant degree. People will vote for beef and Benidorm and think that somebody else will sort out climate change.