2009: The Energy Revolution Starts Here

Happy New Year! 2009 is due to be a huge year, as Obama takes office, and the world figures out how to deal with the economic and climate crises.

For me, 2008 ended on an inspiring note at least. On New Year’s Eve, the Today programme on Radio 4 allowed guest editor Jarvis Cocker (formerly of Pulp) to mess with the usual format. Part of his show - along with chatting with rugby hero Jonny Wilkinson about quantum physics, and a mystery guest that had presenter Evan Davis feeling decidedly nervous - was an interview with Lord Stern, author of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.

Stern, an eminent economist, said the climate crisis will be bigger than the economic crisis, but he felt there was cause for optimism. Here’s a very edited summary of what he says we need to learn from the credit crisis, in order to fix the climate situation:
1. We can’t let things fester: the longer we leave it, the bigger the problem.
2. We need to work together: government intervention is needed and it needs to be on a global scale.
3. This is a real opportunity… the energy revolution starts here.

You can listen to the full interview here.

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This entry was written by Nigel and posted on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at 1:41 am and filed under Green heros, Cool things, Laughing in the face of climate change, Saving energy, Green energy, Co2 emissions, Climate change. Bookmark the permalink. You can follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment, or trackback from your own site.

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