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"We know many of the answers. In a half-hearted way, we've started to act"
Published Date: 27 October 2007
By SAM GHIBALDAN
JOSEPH Heller's classic novel Catch-22 features Yossarian, a pilot desperate to avoid flying the bombing missions he knows to be putting his life in extreme danger. A paradox, the Catch-22 of the title, says pilots can only be exempted from duty if they are crazy. But not wanting to fly is a rational response to the danger, so asking to be grounded proves their sanity. There is no way out. They have to keep flying.
The phrase Catch-22 has become part of our vernacular. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. The coincidence of two news stories this week suggests we're in such a no-win situation right now.

The Registrar-General for Scotland, Duncan Macniven, ...



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Sierra Foothills Scot,

27/10/2007 04:10:48

"If the supermarkets won't do something about packaging, government must make them. If car companies don't make all cars more environmentally friendly, they need to be forced by taxation." Okay.

"If car companies don't make all cars more environmentally friendly, they need to be forced by taxation." Okay, but how long will it take to replace all the cars produced and still in use before the magic environmentally friendly ones? Lots of people can't afford to buy new cars, so old ones stay in use for many years.

"If builders don't ensure all houses are energy efficient, they should be compelled to do so through planning permission." Same problem as with cars, except houses stay in use for even longer.

Would Mr Ghibaldan care to attach some realistic schedules and cost estimates to his proposed solutions?

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nabodican,

Skye 27/10/2007 15:01:41

So in the last seven years co2 has increased by 35% - since the alleged global warming stopped in 1998 (actually 1930 was warmer) and we have nearly 1000 wind turbines in Scotland claiming to cut a massive quantity of co2.
The question must be asked - who is zooming who?
We know the likes of Al Gore , the BWEA and Scottish Renewables do. What about our political masters and the great greenwashed !!!!!!


 

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