Climate change: What are the regions doing?
The 2015 edition of EUobserver's Regions & Cities magazine focuses on climate change and what cities and regions are doing.
The 2015 edition of EUobserver's Regions & Cities magazine focuses on climate change and what cities and regions are doing.
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“<br />
Only physics<br />
will decide<br />
if we were<br />
ambitious<br />
enough ”<br />
<strong>Climate</strong> activist Bill McKibben says in<br />
an interview that until now, <strong>the</strong> climate<br />
proposals “that human beings have come<br />
up with <strong>are</strong> inadequate”.<br />
By Peter Teffer<br />
Bill McKibben has a house “covered with<br />
solar panels”. He drives a hybrid-electric<br />
car. However, <strong>the</strong> one lifestyle <strong>change</strong> that<br />
<strong>the</strong> American environmentalist would recommend<br />
has nothing to do with consuming less energy,<br />
or getting it from a renewable source.<br />
“It’s not that we shouldn’t do things at home. We<br />
should. But I don’t try to fool myself that I’m stopping<br />
climate <strong>change</strong> that way”, he told EUobserver in an<br />
interview in September.<br />
“Given <strong>the</strong> emergency that we’re in, given <strong>the</strong> short<br />
time that we have to act, it’s a lot more important<br />
at <strong>the</strong> moment to <strong>change</strong> <strong>the</strong> policies of <strong>the</strong> people<br />
running things, <strong>the</strong>n try to get everyone on <strong>the</strong> planet<br />
to instantly shift <strong>the</strong>ir ways of life”, noted McKibben.<br />
The most important policy <strong>change</strong> he advocates, is<br />
to stop using fossil fuels.<br />
Photo:University of Michigan<br />
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