My Voice and Noise on the environment

There is a growing credibility gap between the seriousness of what we seem to be doing to our planet, and the green discourse and solutions offered. The challenge of saving our pied-à-terre is too big to allow the efforts needed to fall in the hands of other political agendas or pure rent-extracting environmentalism. To stand a chance we need to question all green proposals, without falling prey to a misguided sense of green solidarity. Stop the green waste!

Friday, December 11, 2015

Fighting climate change should not be an opportunity for pork barrel politicking by NGOs

Initiatives to better the environment or fight climate change is something serious enough, and need to be that and nothing more. These should not be taken as an opportunity for pork barrel politics, like for all types of NGOs to hang on to it their special wishes and issues.

The more pork that is added the lesser the chance of reaching a global consensus.

Carbon emission indulgences?

I do not pretend how to solve it and neither am I set dead against them but, Carbon emissions trading which involves the trading of permits to emit carbon dioxide has too many similarities to the indulgences of sins for me to feel completely relaxed about it.

If we are going down the route for emission trading let us at least make sure that the environmental wrongdoings pardoned are really really wrong and the environmental good doings with which we are to pay for these pardons are really really good. I am not at all sure we are doing that today.