Climate Alarmists Call For “Planned Recession”

‘Planned recession’ could avoid catastrophic climate change

Louise Gray
London Telegraph
Friday, October 2, 2009

Britain will have to stop building airports, switch to electric cars and shut down coal-fired power stations as part of a ‘planned recession’ to avoid dangerous climate change.

At the moment the UK is committed to cutting greenhouse gases by a third by 2020.

However a new report from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research said these targets are inadequate to keep global warming below two degrees C above pre-industrial levels.

(ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW)

The report says the only way to avoid going beyond the dangerous tipping point is to double the target to 70 per cent by 2020.

• A d v e r t i s e m e n t

This would mean reducing the size of the economy through a “planned recession”.

Kevin Anderson, director of the research body, said the building of new airports, petrol cars and dirty coal-fired power stations will have to be halted in the UK until new technology provides an alternative to burning fossil fuels.

Full story here.

Comment Rules

Comments are closed.