The next in line for a custodial sentence has got to be Phoebe Plummer.
Like the others she’s had plenty of warnings..
She’s as unhinged as the rest of them.
Like him or not, JRM does do a great interview by feeding her as much rope as she needs to hang herself..
the problem is, JRM is a fantastic debater and she was clearly a hot head, and she should have had better fall back defence than i am not a scientist!. I do not agree with JSO but at the same time the problem is, NIMBY nobwits and lack of government support has completely derailed what initially was a decent start to providing renewables....... the whole what about when it is dark and when the wind doesnt blow is a huge deflection.... The Dunkelflaute in this country does not historically last for more than 2 weeks, for that we need storage and then an emergency fail safe.....but for the rest of the time we just need more renewable generators to counter when not running at close to peak output.
I would also counter with so what in an absolute emergency we need to buy energy from the EU, indeed a more connected grid europe wide is no bad thing for emergencies - tho i accept we should not rely on it too much as someone made a great point that if we rely too much on it, it would be a target for terrorism......
we need some nuclear for our backbone, and right now yes we probably need some gas......... but we would need a hell of a lot less if we had not stalled rolling out new wind power - both on and off shore, and if solar had been pushed harder, and most importantly of all, if the grid had been expanded at a better rate for new connections to said turbines etc......
so sure, she is ultimately not realistic and right now moggy may well be correct if we did suddenly stop oil.......... but that does not negate the argument that we are not doing enough to insulate our houses, or invest in new renewables and grid improvements, which if done would drastically lower our demand for fossil fuels.
i will say, that lass had bigger balls than i do. i would not want to go onto GBeebies and face JRM in a debate as you must surely know you are on for a hiding as well as ridicule from 99% of the people watching..... in the same way i would not want to go onto LBC and debate with James O'Brien - even if i fully believed i was correct.
i did not like her bringing his own personal money into it.... i wonder if the families of the often middle class or above JSO protesters are all throwing their savings at companies offering to insulate peoples houses. There is no shame in having money so long as its come by fairly.
