Back Peddling on CO2 - 2050

The news of certain adjustments to climate impacting CO2 targets was no surprise! Very few if any governments keep a straight line on anything. Pressures from all directions will make their game plans change. Health Education and Infrastructure works best with long term planning.

Get a new Government and plans change. However, within the government of the current decade ministers change more frequently than is useful! When my company Grass Roots Group was still quite young, I joined up with the great athlete David Hemery and added an enterprise called “Performance Coaching”. We used David’s methodology to teach/coach performance improvement within some large public companies. One of the key tools was a thing we called the GROW model. I found in recent discussion it was still in use and a warm glow overcame me!

So, put simply what is the GOAL? is it REALISTIC? What are the OPTIONS to achieve it and WHEN it can be achieved. Net Zero should have that approach. The problems are many and variable in impact. The big problem is short termism, a lack of general consensus of what to do over the period of the original objective. A consensus on energy consumption in homes for example. I can say that because it is what I am attempting as my latter life big project, not a short-term issue.

Yet all the government supported projects are set up with everything focused on a time band that is impacted by short termism. In the age in which we live we could not live as we do without oil from this Earth. In a previous blog I talked about the amount estimated to be left, it was 42 years across the entire planet. Most of the things we use and touch rely upon the Petro-chemical industry. You can however, with a bit of knowledge start your own CO2 diet.

It would make your life more economic, healthier and make O2 reduction easier over the life we lead. Do not rely on governments of any colour. I am sure most have good intentions but by and large they are only there in the short term and in the long term as John Maynard Keynes observed, we are all dead. We do however have to think about care for the next generations.

After all is said and done, we don’t own this earth, we are all borrowing it from our children.

David Evans MBE

Founder – Matilda’s Planet and other things

www.evansmbe.com