stern report

Jacinta mentioned the Stern Report in a comment. Yes, it will be interesting (and gratifying) watching John Howard et al try and wriggle their way out of this one, because it's not going to go away. And nuclear power, which seems to be Howard's great white hope, uses a vast amount of water, which is in short supply and soon to be even shorter as a result of ... climate change. We can only hope he is to be finally hoist by his own petard. (Not that I'm hoping for more rapid climate change, oh no. Last night ABC news did a report on the Stern Report which Olle watched - I was making dinner. He came and asked me if we had solar power - no. Well, he said, we have 15 years to get it or it will be too late. He hadn't realised they were talking about the entire world, not our little house. I'm glad he hasn't yet realised that.)

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[Helen]

I can't listen to the reports any more. I now know I was wrong to have my children. I can't see them having a long and happy life, or an un-problematic family of their own, any more.
I think it was a mistake.
I love them so much, and they will be in the thick of it.
It depresses me constantly.

[susoz]

Oh Helen, that's awful - awful that circumstamces have led you to feel that way. It makes me doubly (triply etc) angry at the powers that be, even though I know that I have personally benefited from many of the profligate uses of power/fuel. I don't feel exactly as you do, though I have had moments (often lying beside O as he goes to sleep at night) where I fear for his future and experience a sense of how truly terrible it is that even the conditions of the natural environment around him are being vastly altered - can I pass on my own meagre knowledge of the seasons, of trees, of birds, when all of those are undergoing this drastic change? It is indeed too horrible to contemplate much of the time.