Independent on Sunday profiles Chris Huhne

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Independent on Sunday profiles Chris Huhne

By Mark Pack | Sun 13th June 2010 - 8:35 pm

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The paper reports:

This is a man who was “turned on” – yes, turned on – to the green agenda during a visit to Tanzania with The Economist more than 30 years ago. Ten years later, in a book of his published articles, he declared that it “was going to be the dominant issue in our time, in terms of the potential threat to our existence”.

“I can genuinely say that I’ve been committed on the green and climate change agenda for a long time,” he explained. “I’ve always thought what we desperately need to do is combine the commitment which so many people who are concerned about the green agenda have with some hard-nosed economic analysis to deliver it in the cheapest way so that people can go on enjoying the things they like. Often the green agenda is put in such a way that you have to be hair-shirt; you can’t enjoy yourself. This is just wrong.”

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4 Comments

Geoffrey Payne 13th Jun '10 - 9:25pm

If there is one reason to support the coalition, it is this.
SMcG 14th Jun '10 - 7:43am

How on earth can he say this:
“I’ve always thought what we desperately need to do is combine the commitment which so many people who are concerned about the green agenda have with some hard-nosed economic analysis to deliver it in the cheapest way so that people can go on enjoying the things they like”

and yet support wind turbines, one of the least efficient form of power generation around?
David Pollard 14th Jun '10 - 5:54pm

This really inspires. I hope Chris manages to do even a fraction of what he is proposing and I’ll be ‘helping’ him every step of the way.
And who (besides SMcG) says that wind turbines are one of the least efficient forms of power generation around? Most renewable forms of energy are intermittent, which is why we need a balanced portfolio and a flexible back up system. Intermittent is different from efficient.
SMcG 14th Jun '10 - 6:10pm

You can tell they are ineffecient by the vast subsidies required before anyone will build one.