The climate talks in Copenhagen probably represent one of mankind’s last chances to avoid catastrophic climate change, now I know that some people doubt the existence of human induced climate change, the bulk of the membership of the Tory party for one, but why would hundreds of scientists say climate change is occurring if it wasn’t, what would they gain by making the whole story up, why would they sacrifice their reputations  for a lie, this sort of career suicide only exists in the minds of the deniers.

So what should we be hoping for from the negotiations, well a clear cut in emissions by us the developed world is a must, the economy cannot be used as an excuse to do nothing in the end we will gain by reducing our reliance on oil and gas from unstable countries, but we must support developing countries to build their economies along the low carbon model so that  they do not make the same mistakes that we have done, we should also look upon the opportunities that cutting our reliance on oil and gas from other countries would bring.

We are using up the last of the easily available oil, the cheap to extract high quality stuff is fast running out, the next generation oil will be far more expensive to get, and in the case of the Oil shale tars in Canada very damaging to  the environment to extract, so we must look as a country and a town to start the process of transition away from oil, create resilience and build communities, this will hopefully be the positive legacy of Copenhagen and ending our addiction on oil.

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