In my discussion this morning with @JuliaHB1 she had as much understanding of environmental policy as Trump has on how you put out fires. Does she really believe what she said that reducing our carbon emissions would "take us back to the Stone Age"? 
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So give me a straight answer to my simple question - do you really believe that carbon reduction will take us back to the Stone Age?
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I'd love a list of those questions. I didn't hear the interview so I don't know how Amelia dealt with them, etc. I'm sure there are plenty of people on twitter who will answer them! Go on, Julia, try us.
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I would have been happy to answer them if Julia had been willing to listen. If you get a chance to hear the show then you'll see this wasn't the case.
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Really, really don't need to hear it to know this was the case.
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Hi Julia, Yesterday you posted this: https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1117814772832010242 … 2 simple Qs Q1: Do you recognise that you got this wrong & that plummeting insect numbers are a cause for concern? https://www.wired.co.uk/article/insects-dying-out-uk … Q2: Crop yields beyond 1.5 degrees not a concern? https://www.soilassociation.org/news/2018/october/09/ipcc-report-food-and-farming-now-in-the-hot-seat-on-climate-change/ …
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She just didn’t give the answer you wanted her to.
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The complexity of the subject bears no relation to how simple you can make your questions.
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I listened and thought she did answer your points, once you stopped interrupting her.
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Julia, I didn't hear the show, but I don't believe Amelia wasn't very straight and clear. She really knows her stuff. But she's polite and you have to listen!
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shame you didnt let her finish a single sentence...thought I was listening to talk (over the guest) radio
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Generating clean electricity and designing and building clean vehicles will employ as many people and create as much revenue as making polluting energy and vehicles. It’s not a sunk cost but another way of creating economic activity which we could lead at. It just needs a push
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Of course, allowing companies to pollute and produce polluting products is just another way of socialising costs while privatising profits which has been benefitting the rich since the act of enclosure.
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But I dont understand why it would? Surely be using less damaging energy is the best way forward?
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Here's an idea Julia, tweet your list of questions and Amelia will answer them
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Not back to the stone age but maybe the ice age. I bet there were Green troglodytes warning that the use of fire would cause global warming and melt the ice over northern Europe.
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The UK’s carbon emissions have reduced significantly since the 1989s thanks to technological advances (and outsourcing a lot of manufacturing to China). Do you feel that your quality of life is headed toward Ice Age standards?
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Apparently we're due an Ice Age. If the climate changes, will the measures we take today be of use in the future?Wind and PV energy is unpredictable where as tidal can be predicted for a very long time. More heat pumps, microgeneration, carbon capture or the holy grail of fusion?
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‘We’ are not due an ice age. There will be one hundreds if not thousands of years from now. For the moment the planet is heating at a faster rate than ever before. On other forms of energy - when did humans lose their sense of curiosity, innovation, and optimism?
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There are those who say we are due an ice age, and without human intervention would already be having one. Summers were getting colder for six thousand years prior to the industrial revolution. Would zero GG emission and the Milankovitch cycle mean the planet cooling again?
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You can find people who say all sorts of things. The situation we face is that that the planet is heating at a rate that poses a significant risk to our way of life and the ongoing existence of many species.
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You can indeed Jonathan. I'm just not sure what to believe, but civilised debate helps. We must save the planet for those who come after us.
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