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Old 11-12-2006, 04:06 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Sweden, without a whimper, has set a course to become oil-free by 2020, with attendant costs to society. Germany, without a whimper, is changing its power supply to wind-generation. These are adult countries, where the electorate is kept aware of the pressing issues of peak oil and energy security alongside climate change. Stern’s review has highlighted the fact that in the UK, as a society we have over the past two decades been rendered politically illiterate by successive governments that have found it convenient to infantilise us.
I agree with that bit to some extent. However,,

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Germany, without a whimper, is changing its power supply to wind-generation.
Well they will be ****** then.

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pressing issues of peak oil
No foundation this is happening at all yet, but agree we should look to shift our reliance from it anyway.

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Stern’s review has highlighted
Nothing other than some very weak economics built upon some absurd and extreme assumptions, that are all based on dubious pseudo science in the first place.

Thankfully, more and more people are beginning to wake up and smell that coffee.
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