Destruction Incorporated

A clear calm morning and a good run along the loch-side, as a late skein of geese head for their winter haven.

Two inter-linked and very gloomy reports stand out from this morning’s papers. The first is that global CO2 rose by 6% last year, despite or perhaps because of the economic slump. The UK, with its self-proclaimed “greenest government ever”, bravely contributed to this with the first increase in emissions since 1996, lagging behind only Brazil and Saudi Arabia as the dirtiest G20 economy, but obviously nowhere near the two main villains, US & China.. The second is about an estimate that by the end of this century, 50% of all animal species will have been rendered extinct by our environmental carnage, as we accelerate towards what is only the sixth great extinction event in the history of the planet.  No doubt extinction-deniers will soon be as well resourced and orchestrated as climate change-deniers.