What we’re doing to the world: world wildlife vertebrate populations have fallen 27% since the 1970s, with the biggest drop from 1995. “Over-fishing and hunting, along with farming, pollution and urban expansion, were blamed. … In the next 30 years, climate change is expected to become a significant threat to species, said the WWF.”
But so as not to be too depressed on a rainy London Saturday: a city in Alaska has cut electricity use by about 30% in a matter of weeks – because it had to, due to a cut in supplies. And this is in a cold, wet, dark place. Imagine what you could do with London if you really tried.
And in one more small piece of good news, the socialist mayor of Tours, with the backing of the Green party, has decided no longer to pay the city’s subsidy to Ryanair. I wonder if the EU could block all such subsidies on environmental grounds? Anyone know if that might be legally possible?
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