Climate change: The "little things" will stop being optional stuff done by 'long-haired tree-huggers' and will become mandatory. In my job, we have a Green Group which suggested a year ago that people should switch off lights, PCs, etc., when they leave. Their email today was one-part "Well done, here's our energy consumption for the last year compared to the year before and we used about 6% less [they may not have factored in that we've also lost about 6% of our staff...], and another part "But Jebus, people! We walked around the building last night and all this equipment was left switched on [big list, floor by floor]. Cut it out now!"
More people will eventually cop on that shipping lamb from New Zealand or beef from Brazil may not be the most environmentally efficient way of getting meat. But they won't give up on non-native fruit.
Eventually, someone may ban stupidity - such as French bottled water being sold in Ireland. Or Irish butter in Germany. A reversal, to some extent, of the globalisation trend.
But before any of that happens, the battle against the climate change deniers will need to be won. And that's not going to be today or tomorrow.
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Date: 2010-01-11 09:56 pm (UTC)More people will eventually cop on that shipping lamb from New Zealand or beef from Brazil may not be the most environmentally efficient way of getting meat. But they won't give up on non-native fruit.
Eventually, someone may ban stupidity - such as French bottled water being sold in Ireland. Or Irish butter in Germany. A reversal, to some extent, of the globalisation trend.
But before any of that happens, the battle against the climate change deniers will need to be won. And that's not going to be today or tomorrow.