Name: Climate change debate: what are the solutions to the crisis?
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T10:54:52.000Z
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It was extraordinary to hear Greater Tamberg today, getting involved in local Bristol politics by saying that she was delighted that the expansion off Bristol Airport had been stopped.

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This is after I spoke to her about the scrapping of the third runway at Heathrow Airport.

You yourself were in favor of that expansion last year.

Did that put you in a rather awkward position because Bristol's been on the front end off action on climate change?

What the world needs is gonna happen through cities where most people live in week published this week, are our climate strategy.

There is an evidence based approach involves replacing 96,000 high spoilers retrofitting homes.

A no carbon transport system on Bristol Airport while it says it on the tin is not actually in.

Somerset was not my planning decision, but you were in favor of it last year on the record.

My decision is a politically because there's a contest.

I'm not in favor of airport expansion When there is a question.

The real aim is to get the number of people flying to reduce, and I think that's where people are missing the point.

So we're in favor off reducing the number of people flying, and that's a campaign.

I'm important for any politician, Harry, whether you're mayor or you're an MP.

Is it now impossible for you to ignore the voices of people like Jess?

I do want to reassure Jess and her friends that we do really hear the message.

And I think it is incredibly important to act with the first country major economy in the world to have put into law that we want to be net zero by 2050 on.

We've been able to grow the economy over the last decades, create millions and millions of jobs while at the same time cutting carbon emissions by 25%.

So we do hear the message and we are acting.

But they say they hear the message is, do you trust them?

I think we need to see the action, you know, they they say that they're going to act, but really 2050 is 2020 fifties, 20 years too late, and we want to be that zero by 2030 to avoid the catastrophic consequences of this crisis.

So do you think they're not doing enough politicians?

I think there are so many, you know, this legislation, that is, they're ready to be put in place, such as a greeny deal which would make the transition to a zero carbon economy so much easier.

And it would ensure that jobs for those who currently have jobs in the fossil fuel industry and really carbon intensive jobs are protected and up.

But not everyone in the city cares as much about the environment of the future, the planet as you and your generation do.

And they're saying in a minute we can't wait to these green jobs That that sounds great on paper, but I want the job that I was promised last month or last week.

Because there has to be a balance, doesn't there between protecting the planet and protecting the economy?

And I I think the thing to remember is that the more time we waste, the more, uh, drastic this action is gonna become.

We need to take action as soon as possible.

Mayor Reese, do you find it annoying when people like, just just hold you just okay?

When 50 meal citizens like Jess on the Greater Thornburg who's 17 year old are basically telling ticking off politicians like you giving you a telling off?

No, I tell what I do find a little bit first.

Are you sure you don't find that if you let me finish?

One sentence is when when we get arguments set up is there They're binary like the light, like right now, In fact, this is really complicated.

As I said, we've got a city with 12,000 people on the way.

In this, we have to deliver over 30,000 homes in the context of a climate ecological emergency.

We need to deliver a de carbonized transit system.

We need a good relationship with national government.

That means you understand how water flows, where it goes when whether we want it together or not are their practical solutions to the flooding crisis that we're still going through the men that you're hearing from the politicians in charge.

It is, I acknowledge that, but the floods that we've seen over the past couple of weeks are really an indication that we can see, you know, natural hazards affecting most of the country at any point in time.

And we know that these are likely to get worse with climate change, most types of flooding are likely to get worse.

This is the new normal now that we have to get used to you, and I think it's, you know, it's a tiny fraction of 1% of the problems we're storing up for ourselves unless we take some serious action soon.

So how did you come from a constituency that has suffered severe floating?

And it's gonna it might get worse this weekend with storm home.

So what compromises would you be prepared to make Should the government make in terms off dealing with the new normal that is flooding in our country?

It is a well, I look at this flood event, and I looked back 13 years ago when we had the last really bad floods on the River seven and we've got many, many more homes have had flood defenses, so I think a compromise is we need to keep on spending money on flood defenses.

We've also been able to make the community more resilient, so individual level property protection.

But it was said the emergency service is working much more closely together on I think that there were announcements last week.

Just last week, for example, where we announced that you would no longer be able to put wet wood in your wood burning stove.

You will never be able to wouldn't be able to buy cold for your fire anymore on.

So those are the kinds of action that we are taking action.

I think we have to do a lot more to make our communities resilient.

I think we need to do a lot more to make sure that we're not putting people in the way of floods on to make the problem is gonna get worse.

So we need to really take that seriously.

May you've got the particular responsibility of housing A lot of people in this city.

I think you told me that he expected population of Bristol, which is about 400,000.

The moment you got 465 60 dig up another 100,000 in the you know, in the next 10 years, we're gonna build those houses.

We need to have the government, but one of the ancestors.

With most of the world now living in cities and cities, being the big driver of emissions is to support cities to redesign themselves.

Historically, they've grown with no regard to the impact on the planet.

So even if people are conscious and want to live a low impact life, it's hard work.

What we need is a bankable relationship with government is worth billions of pounds over 10 15 years for us to redesign city systems from housing to waste the water to the use of energy to transport so that even if people aren't thinking about it, they're living low impact lives.

That takes a fundamental shift in the way we run this country.

Just I mean, you know, these are practical decisions that politicians have to make.

But you've got totally different concerns, haven't you?

You got your concern is about the future of the planet that you have to inhabit.

Yeah, I think it's really important for politicians to realize that my generation and generations to follow the ones who are really gonna bear the brunt of the decisions that are made now, on today.

So are you frustrated when you when you look at what's going on in government not just here but in other countries as well?

I mean, the way the greater tongue burgers and she looks at the newspapers everyday things.

Oh, my God, they're just not taking this seriously.

I think, Yeah, I think it's understandable to be when you see all these new extremes that are becoming everyday life, it's I don't see how you can not be angry in a way because it's affecting people and people are dying.

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