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Book review: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates

“So, who am I to lecture anyone on the environment?” asks a man that flies in private planes and owns big homes. Okay. He is trying to mitigate his impacts through sustainable fuel and carbon offsets. But is Bill Gates the man to tell us how to fix climate change?

Bill Gates’ philosophy is one of improving life chances and lifestyles while cutting carbon emissions. It is an unashamedly market-led approach, creating incentives through carbon pricing and reducing the cost of greening energy. His approach is to roll out new technologies for energy and food production, not to change the fundamental ways that society works.

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Liberal Democrats publish their election manifesto front page

Manifesto_Covers_2015The Liberal Democrats are today launching the front page of their General Election manifesto. The front-page will set out the five Liberal Democrat priorities for forming a government after May 7th. The Scottish and Welsh Liberal Democrats will also today unveil their manifesto priorities, including greater devolution of power to Scotland and Wales. Nick Clegg will launch the campaign on a visit to a primary school in the Conservative-held constituency of Oxford West and Abingdon.

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    It is possible to maintain a single lock based on indexing to average income provided you adjust the retirement age to maintain the ratio of pensioners to worki...
  • Craig Levene
    Biden had the leverage to stop this slaughter so much earlier. The man deserves zero credit....
  • Nick Baird
    Surely the real problem with affordability of the state pension is the increasing number of pensioners and the worsening ratio of pension-age vs working people?...
  • David Evans
    Hi Anthony, Thanks for the info. The only question is why didn't the Lib Dems make opposing the bus lane our issue? When I've been on it, the A4 through Salt...
  • Anthony Acton
    Geoff - exactly the situation here. Also, the winning independent was a local parish councillor campaigning against a controversial plan for a bus lane on the b...