I've no idea of the practicalities of the reflective sheets but it sounds logistically very difficult.

Renewable energy sources are fairly expensive and inefficient at this stage but there is obviously significant investment in this space and indeed transition to renewable energy sources is well underway. It's an enormous industry in it's own right and huge part of the solution, if we are to have one.

When you talk about taxing the average person and making their life more inconvenient - what are the examples of this?

To be clear, there are undoubtedly people looking to profit out of climate change, but the existence a few opportunists shouldn't distract from the issue itself.

Quite agree taxing the consumer is simply just an excuse for politicians to rake in more money.

I can think of a couple of examples they could do:

- Biggest plastic bottle polluter is Coca Cola tell them and the others they will be taxed for every plastic bottle they sell. How long before miracle of miracles they come up with an environmentally friendly solution. Tax the manufacturers.

- As I understand it there is no national recycling standard for local councils to follow in other words one council may recycle a packet but next door they don't. If we want to get serious about recycling then force all councils to obey one set of rules. You can then tell manufacturers to make the labeling clearer and better yet stop using materials that can't be re-cycled.

One more point

Forcing electric cars onto people when they're not any good, they pollute more and there is no infrastructure. Congestion charges, like the London one but also elsewhere - along with high prices in public transport. Fuel tax, carbon tax, shutting of car parking spaces.
As I already said, my city was far more industrial a hundred years ago, electricity and power was produced by water wheels - yet we're incapable of the same or better today? That technology is old and well around. The biggest issue where I live: Salmon fishers. The technology is there. Even large sheets would obviously reflect light away from oceans - not that high tech or requiring even, say, the logistics of mining for oil miles underground.
An idea recently mooted was reducing temperature by reflecting light away from the atmosphere. Kind of a man made version of what happens when major volcanoes go off. That's something that can quite clearly be done. We know that dust created lower temperatures. We'd have to find a safe way to do it. Maybe it's not easy? But I'm not seeing any of the obvious ideas. Just tax people out of things but don't offer much, or any at all, actual alternatives.
Any reasonable person, for example, is going to come to a common sense solution to cars. Recycle and fix old ones. Not scrap everything and replace with a technology that actually creates more problems.
I was considering, when everyone has an electric car, imagine the land use required for charging. Yet alone, the electricity usage and how that's generated.

Red and Blue Army!

I don't really know where to start with this - you clearly have no comprehension of what I've said.

You just seem to want to be contradictory on this - so fair enough. I've given doable alternatives which would have huge impacts for cheaper than changing the whole way people live. But let's just go along with the changing of an entire society and way of life and charging people for the pleasure. The green revolution. Perhaps we could just go pre-industrial and be serfs or farmers? Obviously no point in using readily available technology to reverse climate change. Why even consider it at all.

Red and Blue Army!

I probably am being harsh. You've highlighted your position - fair enough. I find that quite doctrinal rather than genuinely sensible. I'm pretty sure more scientific people than me can poo poo any idea - yet there are obviously things that could be done genuinely pretty easily. Even solar power is barely used. Or reforestation, I'm not doctrinal, I just think we're going down an electric car and tax route which is unhelpful and wrong. It also creates an anti-green doctrine which I don't blame average people for. The greens are a farce where I live and have far too much power. Yet, still we are side-tracking the anti BBC thread.

Red and Blue Army!

Seems reasonable enough. I was talking about something like that drunk the other night. Obviously, just one thing that would probably require a range of other measures.
I could suggest population controls but that's not actually an issue in well off societies, so will not get any traction.

Red and Blue Army!

Agree 100%.

Scary fact: It took the human race 30,000 years to get to 1 billion. In the last 12 years the population has INCREASED by 1 billion!!!!!

It is a toss-up who is more ridiculous the BBC the tories or the brexit generation of voters.

But never mind Auntie will be holding a special Question Time to mark the 7th anniversary of the Brexit referendum... reserved exclusively for Leavers.

Come on down, Clacton-on-Sea.

That's right: their audience will consist entirely of people who inflicted Brexit on the rest of us.

Bias, much?

and to participate in any BBC studio discussion ? especially for politics ? no way. Get a balanced discussion and get to argue your case ? you would have a better chance in a cage of Hyenas at London Zoo.

the only time i would participate, would be to Troll the Live event with questions about Jimmy Savile.

BBC scum

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