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\"cherry<\/a>Its worth thinking as we head towards the all important Paris climate talks that we have made some progress on two environmental problems.\u00a0 I was reminded of this this week as England<\/a> introduces a charge for plastic bags.\u00a0 Its not the first place in the world to do so nor will it be the last.\u00a0 The problem of shredded plastic at the visible and microscopic level is a huge one and is going to last for decades (maybe longer) but this is at least the first step in solving it.\u00a0 Everywhere the charge has been introduced plastic bag use has dropped massively.<\/p>\n

The other one of the two environmental problems that has been partially solved is that of the hole in the ozone layer.\u00a0 Scientists at the British Antarctic survey found it over the Antarctic using a weather balloon.\u00a0 Caused by CFC’s used as coolant in refrigeration the Montreal protocol lead to their banning.\u00a0 Not to do so would have let harmful UVC radiation through, something the ozone layer stops.\u00a0\u00a0UVC is radiation our skin is not used to dealing with.\u00a0 Civilisation has not crashed and alternatives have been found.<\/p>\n

Neither of the two environmental problems I have described have been solved completely.\u00a0 There is an enormous amount of plastic in the ocean and according to a very worrying report on the radio we are eating microscopic plastic everyday.\u00a0 The hole in the ozone layer is<\/em> healing but not gone.\u00a0 Nevertheless starting to solve these two problems should encourage us to start to solve the really big one, climate change.\u00a0 Of course all these problems are or were a symptom of our oil and energy addiction.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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