- Location
- Lincolnshire
Never mind net zero by 2050 : that’s a long term policy that will maybe only hold us where we are today in terms of warming, that’s even if we can achieve it globally which seems highly unlikely.
What concerns me more is the next decade.
What measures are being put in place to ensure security of water supplies?
Have we given consideration to holding some reserves of food commodities to get us through a dry couple of years without food becoming unacceptably scarce and dear?
Are we looking at building design to mitigate the effects of heatwaves?
Are we considering management of vegetation to avoid wildfires we see becomg moire prevalent on the continent?
I see no strategy at all for the short to medium term problems we will face. Government seems oblivious to the risks that are in front of us today while messing about throwing money at ELMS and other schemes that do nothing to address the problems we face.
Take rewilding as an example.,From what I’ve seen it seems to increase the risk of an uncontrollable wild fire by leaving dead vegetation in place to become tinder dry. The Forestry Commission has a new policy here preventing locals from helping themselves to brash for firewood. It’s all very well saying it sequesters carbon, which is debatable, but it’s left thousands of acres at extreme risk from fire with all the loss of carbon and habitat that itv would entail.
Management rather than rewilding can help us in my view to mitigate extremes. But I don’t see much of it about. The old ways of hygiene and husbandry came about for a reason. That all seems to have been lost and we will pay dearly for it.
What concerns me more is the next decade.
What measures are being put in place to ensure security of water supplies?
Have we given consideration to holding some reserves of food commodities to get us through a dry couple of years without food becoming unacceptably scarce and dear?
Are we looking at building design to mitigate the effects of heatwaves?
Are we considering management of vegetation to avoid wildfires we see becomg moire prevalent on the continent?
I see no strategy at all for the short to medium term problems we will face. Government seems oblivious to the risks that are in front of us today while messing about throwing money at ELMS and other schemes that do nothing to address the problems we face.
Take rewilding as an example.,From what I’ve seen it seems to increase the risk of an uncontrollable wild fire by leaving dead vegetation in place to become tinder dry. The Forestry Commission has a new policy here preventing locals from helping themselves to brash for firewood. It’s all very well saying it sequesters carbon, which is debatable, but it’s left thousands of acres at extreme risk from fire with all the loss of carbon and habitat that itv would entail.
Management rather than rewilding can help us in my view to mitigate extremes. But I don’t see much of it about. The old ways of hygiene and husbandry came about for a reason. That all seems to have been lost and we will pay dearly for it.