>> ... is to stop protesters from trying to interfere with plans for new power
>> stations.
>>
> Nope because carbon capture is unproven and expensive and is being
> used merely as an excuse to build more heavily polluting coal power
> stations. Protesters have helped to publicise this scam.
>
> While renewables look attractive they cannot meet demand and are in
> some cases uneconomic. Nuclear is extremely hazardous and costly.
>
> The only sensible solution in the short term is to decrease energy
> consumption and its attendant pollution by cutting waste and by
> conserving energy. Such measures as smaller and fewer cars, less
> travel and home insulation, etc., are needed immediately.
>
> Hopefully the credit crunch will help to reduce some travel,
> particularly frivolous flying to distant lands but weven greater
> disincentives are called for. Unfortunately the profit motives of a
> few directly conflicts with sensible conservation and there will
> always be some who want to profit from the misfortunes of others by
> harming people and the planet.
>
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> Travel broadens the damage.