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| climate criminals |
"Lobbies and the Military are pushing the UK to favour fracking and nuclear energy over renewables."
“ 'England’s
energy policy is very opportunistic, there is no long-term vision,”
says Duncan Connors, an economics and energy policy specialist at Durham
University. The idea that there is money to be made short-term in shale
gas is what underpins government policy, he says. “In the long run,
renewables will also bring in a lot of money, but that doesn’t fit into
their frame of vision.' ”
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| climate emergency |
"For
now, there is still a limit to wind and solar energy: the need to store
energy to compensate for uneven weather conditions. Kirby argues that
this “isn’t a real problem,” in a few years, there will be batteries
powerful enough to store the surplus energy and retransmit it. “The
smart thing to do now would be to invest resources into conducting
research into making these storage options a reality,” he says. In the
UK, Green energy gets twelve times less R&D funding from the
government than nuclear power."
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More Australians than ever believe human activity is entirely or mainly responsible for climate change, new polling shows.
