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It has been ever since ‘Silent Spring’ was published in 1962
But it has never truly broken through the short term political systems, in the same way that it has never broken through the general public’s short term concerns.
Geo politically there is a chance that something tangible may happen now, but it’s never, ever nailed on despite how dire the situation
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/government-climate-policy/
The UK Gov sees it’s self as going out on a limb by pledging to be the first major economy to commit to completely avoiding emissions from homes, transport, farming and industry or offset them.
The link here is economic damage being recognised and that’s what will change & deliver this, not really campaigning (obvs it helps, is noble and gets good headlines, The not paying council tax protester is brilliantly absurd) in a broader sense.
I did a ‘wildlife and conservation economics’ module as part of my EM degree, and 18years later and a career in the field, I truly understand the importance of it, only really now.
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Ive only started properly thinking about it since i had my daughter
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Thanks for sharing.
With great hope, I'm following the development of a green "not financed" bulletin from the brand new government, formed in Denmark this week. The environment is the top one concern from the Danish voters (en general) and how the politicians will honour this is almost too exciting to watch.
Denmark being a small rich country, might be able to show in small scale what is possible on a greater scale/economics.
My background from uni is environmental planning - ended out as a school teacher in secondary school #lostmyclimatemojo /csb
sacredhart
Thuekr
Given the dire warnings on irreversible catastrophic change just around the corner, is the environment now the over-riding political issue worldwide.