It would be a rather foolish policy to hope for a sudden reduction in human population. Population should level off at some point, but far too late to avoid disastrous consequences.

The main concern now should be protecting our Island.

Of course, we should be moving away from fossil fuels and investing in renewable, clean energy. Sadly China and other developing countries are unlikely to do so.

Whenever you write these kinds of posts, I know what's coming. Lots of doom and calls for action but never a word about any sort of practical, achievable solution.

Population increase is only part of the reason for man made warming. It's much more to do with our lifestyles and expectations, and those can be adapted. They already are.

I agree though that climate change is inevitable. Even if the reduction targets are met, which seems improbable, we are going to face a significant warming which will have some big consequences. Achieving the target is really important, as without doing so we face a potential catastrophe, but we also need to attend, just as urgently, to preparing for the inevitable consequences of the warming we know will happen. This doesn't yet appear to receive much attention.

We might live on an island, but the world today doesn't reflect that. It is simply unrealistic to expect we can raise the drawbridge, retreat to our castle and leave the besieging hordes to starve outside our walls. More likely, we would starve inside.

We have no choice other than to tackle these problems with our neighbours, and together we must do that at source. We need to find ways to stop the "hordes" wanting to invade us because there is no need to do so. People don't leave their homelands through choice. They only do so through necessity.

It will be near to impossible anyway, but Brexit has made this much, much harder to accomplish. Great result all round.

Whenever you write these kinds of posts, I know what's coming. Lots of doom and calls for action but never a word about any sort of practical, achievable solution.

Population increase is only part of the reason for man made warming. It's much more to do with our lifestyles and expectations, and those can be adapted. They already are.

I agree though that climate change is inevitable. Even if the reduction targets are met, which seems improbable, we are going to face a significant warming which will have some big consequences. Achieving the target is really important, as without doing so we face a potential catastrophe, but we also need to attend, just as urgently, to preparing for the inevitable consequences of the warming we know will happen. This doesn't yet appear to receive much attention.

We might live on an island, but the world today doesn't reflect that. It is simply unrealistic to expect we can raise the drawbridge, retreat to our castle and leave the besieging hordes to starve outside our walls. More likely, we would starve inside.

We have no choice other than to tackle these problems with our neighbours, and together we must do that at source. We need to find ways to stop the "hordes" wanting to invade us because there is no need to do so. People don't leave their homelands through choice. They only do so through necessity.

It will be near to impossible anyway, but Brexit has made this much, much harder to accomplish. Great result all round.

Whenever you write these kinds of posts, I know what's coming. Lots of doom and calls for action but never a word about any sort of practical, achievable solution.

Population increase is only part of the reason for man made warming. It's much more to do with our lifestyles and expectations, and those can be adapted. They already are.

I agree though that climate change is inevitable. Even if the reduction targets are met, which seems improbable, we are going to face a significant warming which will have some big consequences. Achieving the target is really important, as without doing so we face a potential catastrophe, but we also need to attend, just as urgently, to preparing for the inevitable consequences of the warming we know will happen. This doesn't yet appear to receive much attention.

We might live on an island, but the world today doesn't reflect that. It is simply unrealistic to expect we can raise the drawbridge, retreat to our castle and leave the besieging hordes to starve outside our walls. More likely, we would starve inside.

We have no choice other than to tackle these problems with our neighbours, and together we must do that at source. We need to find ways to stop the "hordes" wanting to invade us because there is no need to do so. People don't leave their homelands through choice. They only do so through necessity.

It will be near to impossible anyway, but Brexit has made this much, much harder to accomplish. Great result all round.

Bring them in legally, do it all by the book and we can get them all working, paying tax and contributing from day 1. Win-win for everyone!

Yeah anything to keep the shirkers or unintentionally long term unemployed twiddling their thumbs.