Comments on: Cut Out The Carbon http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/comment/cut-out-the-carbon/ Guardian Student Publication of the Year 2011-12 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:04:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kelly Holt http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/comment/cut-out-the-carbon/#comment-917 Kelly Holt Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:40:44 +0000 http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/?p=2394#comment-917 In all honesty, 10% emissions cuts aren't enough- we need to be emitting 80% less carbon by 2050 to stop the progress of climate change, but to reverse the effects, there actually needs to be a pretty much complete stoppage of the use of all carbon fuels. Tricky one. I think part of the reason 10:10 hasn't had an impact, is because it just isn't big enough, or drastic enough. As a believer in direct action, I think it's things like climate camp and the wave- the big, eye catching stuff, that makes people think about their energy comsumption. The phrase used by Friends of the Earth 'think global act local' is absolutely right, but 10:10 doesn't go far enough, and I think is why it hasn't had an impact- it's a half hearted target, that makes people think the issue is half as important as it is. In all honesty, 10% emissions cuts aren’t enough- we need to be emitting 80% less carbon by 2050 to stop the progress of climate change, but to reverse the effects, there actually needs to be a pretty much complete stoppage of the use of all carbon fuels. Tricky one.

I think part of the reason 10:10 hasn’t had an impact, is because it just isn’t big enough, or drastic enough. As a believer in direct action, I think it’s things like climate camp and the wave- the big, eye catching stuff, that makes people think about their energy comsumption. The phrase used by Friends of the Earth ‘think global act local’ is absolutely right, but 10:10 doesn’t go far enough, and I think is why it hasn’t had an impact- it’s a half hearted target, that makes people think the issue is half as important as it is.

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