Is the UK on the road to environmental disaster?

[Bonzocat]

Maybe it would useful to link another thread started by Geoff_Cox a year ago – ‘Climate/ecological breakdown’…

Climate/ecological breakdown

I’ve been thinking of starting a specific thread on this for some time. It has of course been touched on in many other places - discussions on extreme weather, electric vehicles, etc. It’s partly the imminent COP 26 that has prompted me now - but more immediately it was comments in one of the electric vehicle threads on the environmental and human damage wrought by battery etc production. This goes to the heart of the issue for me: technological fixes are not in themselves the answer. The only realistic way forward is in fact radical change to both our lifestyles and our economies. As a starting point for discussion, I propose this typically challenging article by George Monbiot: