Apparently, the Copenhagen meeting that has been going on about the climate this week has come to a point where the EU has agreed to spend £6.5Bn to help developing nations fight climate change.
Wow. £6.5Bn, that’s an amazing amount. We can spend hundreds of billions of pounds fighting two wars (and I’m just talking about the UK here), we can spend £1.5 -Trillion- pounds on bailing out the banks, but the UK has managed to find a whopping £1.5Bn to fight climate change. The other European countries managed to find £5Bn.
Stunning.
It’s made it perfectly clear where our priorities are, don’t you think?
What makes me chuckle is this though – the western nations, and increasingly China too, fight wars over oil, to preserve the status quo; but if we didn’t fight those wars, and channeled money into developing eco-technologies like solar, wave, wind etc., and really make an effort, those businesses would be worth as much as oil is now, and would be renewable rather than finite…