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Scenario: News
Newspaper for 1st June 2015

Are the media leading the way on sustainable development?

The article below appeared on the BBC News website yesterday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4648710.stm
It doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know but its significance is that it shows that the issues it mentions are entering the mainstream, possibly before they have been taken onboard by Comhar, the National Sustainable Development Partnership, and almost certainly before they have been incorporated into the thinking behind the new National Development Plan.

Energy gap: Crisis for humanity?
By Richard Black
BBC News website environment correspondent

It is perhaps too early to talk of an energy “crisis”.

Steam rising from power plants over Moscow
Fossil fuels have been the cheapest and most convenient so far

But take your pick from terms like “serious concern” and “major issue” and you will not be far from the positions which analysts are increasingly adopting.

The reason for their concern can be found in a set of factors which are pulling in glaringly different directions:

* Demand for energy, in all its forms, is rising
* Supplies of key fuels - notably oil and gas - show signs of decline
* Mainstream climate science suggests that reducing greenhouse gas emissions within two decades would be a prudent thing to do
* Meanwhile the Earth’s population continues to rise, with the majority of its six billion people hankering after a richer lifestyle - which means a greater consumption of energy.

Posted by on 01/30 at 01:22 AM