In Case You Missed It: Top temperatures & ten thousand turtles

[saxrenforth]

There are simply too many of us. How many 'earths' are all of us using now? Agree with Jane, you never talk about it.

[anjagersdorf]

Great video! Keep up the excellent work :-)

[janenightwork]

Helping people to have smaller families has by FAR the greatest impact on moving us to a sustainable way of living, yet you still won't talk about it.

[JugglinJellyTake]

There are a fair number of people saying having fewer kids, yet very few of those state they have abstained from having kids and non saying they run events suggesting people don't have kids or how such policies would work.

Earth overshoot day was on August 22nd so rounding that up to the end of August (that would suggest 1 1/2 earths) compared to July 29th last year. According to the report a decline in of 3.8% in energy consumption equates to a 5% cut in greenhouse gas emissions. There has been declines in deforestation and CO2 emissions but not so much in food. A circa 15% cut in emissions compared with 25% for some countries is substantial and demonstrates clearly what needs to be achieved in terms of conservation and carbon emissions.

More importantly these are things that can be done with the right policies. Limiting population growth makes little difference compared to what can be achieved with other routes as there is a huge lag in population contraction. Further, it does not guarantee habitat destruction will slow down and there is much habitat loss locked in from current emisisons.

Energy, diet (plant based / predominantly plant based), consumption, travel, buildings heating / cooling, waste and conservation are by far the biggest impacts we can have to reduce emissions and resource use in any meaningful time.

[andykadir-buxton]

The UK Conservative Government gives £10.5 billion in subsidies from our taxes to fossil fuel companies each year, which equates to £16, 153, 846 per constituency. With an average of 70, 530 constituents in each constituency this works out as £229 generously donated by our caring government per person which leads to more CO2 and more pollution.



The project cost of a 3.5 MW Enercon E126 EP 3 wind turbine costs £3.13 million, and if the subsidies were diverted to renewables we could have an extra wind farm of 5.16 wind turbines in every constituency every year, generating 18.06 MW per hour per year. 34.82 MW per hour is used by the average person in the UK per year, so our wind turbines would provide clean electricity to 8, 766‬ more people in every constituency every year, in eight years every constituency would have clean electricity provided locally. As nuclear and fossil fuel turbine generators use 50% of our fresh water in the process of generating electricity having such a policy will also double fresh water sources, that are being increasingly stretched by global weirding. Think Green. Think Clean.