BEIS Strategy Committee question Extinction Rebellion

This is a difficult video (1:40) to watch and study as Gail Bradbrook struggles to be even handed and cordial with regulators and policy wonks who can not seem to be able to hear that we no longer have faith that government's piece meal approach is credible, indeed it is feeble.  However it touched on many difficult specific questions such as nuclear, jobs, time frames, carbon trading, etc, that come from the establishment point of view on possible policies and is good to know how these conversations go down.

The Terrible Ethical Calculus of Catastrophe

Ian Welsh, Blog, May 31, 2019, posted by Wayne Morgenthaler Normally I do not re post blogs, however this one points to a critical question that does not need restating -- under a government plan to fix the climate catastrophe, who will the save?  Our government's track record for 30 years does not inspire confidence in the outcome, but that does not mean we can wait.  It is pretty certain that the task ahead will require constant vigilance and popular resistance to programs to save the rich and abandon the poor. Let us say you know a catastrophe is coming, and you cannot stop it and thus save everyone.  What do you do? You start making choices about who to save. Not just their lives, but their stuff and their power. Catastrophes often lead to changes in societies, but sometimes they don’t.