Well let’s hope your forecasts are right!! I’m still bringing a waterproof!;)

I doubt that anything we do will have the slightest affect on China, India, Indonesia and to a great extent, Russia. In fact anything we do or should I say, what we are now doing is likely to be highly detrimental to us, without affecting those other huge emerging economies.

Ooops! Correction accepted!:) Yes, probably………..:diablo:

I don’t advocate anything. In the matter of the environment there has been and still is so much contradictory “evidence” and opinion that we mortals have no chance whatsoever of knowing what is best. I take a pragmatic attitude since I doubt that much we do will make s significant global difference since our use or abuse, if you prefer, is massively outweighed by the big developing economies. Our current energy policy is likely to produce energy shortages in a decade or so whatever happens.

When our Greek friend, Aspis, joined the thread so it inevitably veered towards EU matters and GA made the pertinent comment. We have debated the EU many times here so yet another debate is unlikely to shed any more light on it. In passing I am quite surprised at your comments – previous EU threads have lead to a very lively dialogue!!:diablo:

Errr…..the thread has NOTHING to do with the EU – that’s why I have attempted to bring it back on line!!

I have offspring and great off-spring but am under no illusion that whatever we think we might be doing to save the planet on their behalf will almost certainly be misplaced and new unknown dangers will supercede those which worry so many now.

Mmm – :(. As the OP I sense the heavy hand of responsibility to heave us back into line to see if there is more life in it.

So we have had the first round and depending on everyone’s prejudices they were a great success or a total failure as well as all the shades between. What next? Will more strikes make a difference? Will the government cave in? Will the membership support for action diminish?