When I started this blog nearly 2 years ago, it was in response to the complete and utter failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference. I was incensed by the fact that narrow-minded politicians were putting national interests above the interests and, frankly, lives of future generations.
Since then, nothing much has changed on that front. For sure, all nations seem agreed that it would be a bad thing for the world to warm by any more than 2 degrees C, but they're doing precious little about it.
And if the likes of Canada, India, USA, China and Brazil have their way, there'll be no follow-up to the Kyoto Agreement until 2015 at the earliest and probably not until 2020.
Yet the science says that carbon emissions have to peak by 2020 if we are to have any chance of staying below that 2 degree target. Not looking good is it?
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Politics aside, one of the other themes of this blog (As the sub-title suggests) is to show how my family is reducing it's carbon footprint (plus energy bill) and hopefully inspire others to have go. Not sure whether I'm inspiring others but I'm certainly doing that to myself. I've managed to find all sorts of ways to cut our footprint since starting this blog. And at little or no cost. That's been the whole point really: To show people that it doesn't have to cost the earth to save the Earth. Just simple, cheap, and often, cost saving measures.
Of course, I've gone a bit beyond that now. 2 years ago, getting a hybrid car or solar panels were just pipe-dreams. Way beyond my means. But, thanks to a dip into my savings and, later, some redundancy money, I have a Toyota Prius (Not a very cost effective way to cut your footprint admittedly but a very nice car all the same), and we'll hopefully have solar panels soon. Who'd have thought it?
Where will the next 2 years take me?
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