One problem has been that, at every stage, politicians have insisted that the population won't be increasing so much. Eastern Europeans weren't expected to come to Britain in such large num… (View Post)

Right. We had that whole argument over green steel production a few years ago when the question of that coking mine came up. I believe I'm right in saying that the British choice was to do neith… (View Post)

Yes. The main reason I say least vulnerable is because both countries produce a food surplus, and although rainfall changes are particularly uncertain they're less likely to be as severe as they… (View Post)

I would agree with a lot of this. Agriculture in India is also particularly vulnerable to climate change, but Modi hasn't cottoned on as quickly as China has. Arguably two of the countries least… (View Post)

A more optimistic factor is that many of the key technologies we need to deploy to reduce the scale of the problem (solar and batteries, say) have reached a level of maturity where government interve… (View Post)