People pressure on resources

Stephen Hardy is a predictable politician, slating other parties and this government for failing to address our escalating climate change issues (19/6/20), yet he fails to recognise the only honest solution: stop breeding! More people means more pollution, natural (methane) ‘greenhouse’ gas and man-made CO2 in building more homes, factories (increased consumer demand), roads, airports. But what do his irrelevant Lib-Dems demand? Uncontrolled immigration, 10 new cities (three in our overcrowded South East) built on the food producing green belt and larger GDP economies.

Not only does he demand an end to fossil fuel derived energy, but also 100% ‘clean’ nuclear! So what do we use for on-demand energy? Toxic lithium AA batteries? Just like politicians, solar and wind power are unpredictable: the sun barely shines 6 hours a day in winter; the wind 5 days a week - frustrated millers turned to steam. Hydro and tidal power is puny. The solution is pollution-free hydrogen for transport, with natural gas (and planting carbon-capture trees) and nuclear for core, base on-demand energy. Simples!

Yes, nuclear carries a managed risk - so does life - but nature always recovers. Compare today’s Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Chernobyl and Fukushima to on-going annual deaths in Britain by cancer (145,000), heart disease (140,000) - even Covid-19. Yes, life is risky.

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