Latest comments posted about Home truths on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1159-Home-truths http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1159-Home-truths One huge step the UK could take to reduce emissions is to retro-fit supercritical boilers to its longer life coal fired power stations. this would cut CO2 emissions by 20% at each of these - a huge amount and much more than savings gained by people putting their washing out to dry. In this way the UK would be following in China's footsteps: China has 80% of the supercritical coal stations installed in the world and most of its new stations will use this technology in the future. Dave Feickert Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:36:43 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1159#comment-4068 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1159#comment-4068 If there was a real visible emergency -- like a war -- people would accept huge changes in the way they lived because they would see the point. The difficulty with climate change is that by the time it becomes a visible, tangible emergency for most of us, enough for us to understand the danger we are in, it will be too late. I think we have to make people understand exactly what kind of world today's children will have to live in and show them that this is a moral issue. Most people would not think that stealing from a baby was a good thing. But if you make the wrong choices, through selfishness and laziness, you are stealing from children. Every tonne of carbon we put into the atmosphere is a tonne less for the next generation. When our parents did it to us, they did not know the consequences. We do. Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:29:27 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1159#comment-4017 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1159#comment-4017 Most people will choose a easy way to finish a work, so do I. I will not bother calculating how much CO2 will be generated by turning on the dryer. If I have to do so, I might also like to calculate how much CO2 will be generated by supporting me to finish hanging, walking and so on, and see if it is worth turning on dryer or not. But I am too lazy to do that, and then I choose the dryer. Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:50:44 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1159#comment-4016 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1159#comment-4016 Nowadays, those NGO in developed countries are launching environmental protection events in developing countries; However, have they done their job in their own countries? Those in developed countries are continuing consuming a large amount of resources, they are driving and travelling by plane. So I feel confused sometimes, and wonder if they are eligible to persuade China, a developing country where people are still struggling for food, to cut emissions? Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:48:30 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1159#comment-4013 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1159#comment-4013 The masses need to be environment-conscious. However, valid policies and appropirate schemes are crucial to the needed action taken by the public. The UK as mentioned in the article is a well-illustrated example. Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:32:29 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1159#comment-4007 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1159#comment-4007