Comments for The Digger http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner Stephen Gardner is editor of Euro-correspondent.com, and Brussels freelance environment correspondent for the Bureau of National Affairs (US). He is also a contributor to other media such as the BBC and the UK magazines Ethical Corporation and Private Eye. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:39:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on I’m impressed… by Jean-Baptiste Perrin http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/2010/03/09/im-impressed/comment-page-1/#comment-1274 Jean-Baptiste Perrin Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:39:34 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/?p=73#comment-1274 About 17% of the French and 9% of the Dutch, apparently... About 17% of the French and 9% of the Dutch, apparently…

]]> Comment on I’m impressed… by Marcel http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/2010/03/09/im-impressed/comment-page-1/#comment-1273 Marcel Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:06:35 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/?p=73#comment-1273 What a morons, you can always count on the greens (ie former communists) to further destroy what's left of the EU countries' economies. Who votes green anyway? What a morons, you can always count on the greens (ie former communists) to further destroy what’s left of the EU countries’ economies. Who votes green anyway?

]]> Comment on I’m impressed… by Joe Noory http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/2010/03/09/im-impressed/comment-page-1/#comment-1271 Joe Noory Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:31:44 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/?p=73#comment-1271 "Green Growth" isn't. While examples here and there of a successful enterprise can be found, it has the inherent burden of costlier inputs and heavier regulation hanging around it's neck. No, what I'm hoping for is that enough of this endless, pointless, EU-style summitry can continue, that people will look back and find that there was no post-religious apocalypse that they convinced themselves of. You realize that limiting CO2 has nothing to do with breathing cleaner air, or drinking cleaner water, or having cleaner rivers and streams, or blissed out woodland creatures eating one another, It's an underhanded attempt to reorder MAN (rather tyrannically) rather than reorder the atmosphere. If the matter was real and serious, we wouldn't have all of these tortured disagreements that require the dissolution of individual and local sovereignty, and would have genuine engineering issues to contend with. Instead what we find is the advocates starting with "we have to creat a new man" and childhood programming. In fact the things deemed -too important to figure out- are precisely why I don't give any credence to any theory favored by 20 year olds with no life experience. “Green Growth” isn’t. While examples here and there of a successful enterprise can be found, it has the inherent burden of costlier inputs and heavier regulation hanging around it’s neck.

No, what I’m hoping for is that enough of this endless, pointless, EU-style summitry can continue, that people will look back and find that there was no post-religious apocalypse that they convinced themselves of.

You realize that limiting CO2 has nothing to do with breathing cleaner air, or drinking cleaner water, or having cleaner rivers and streams, or blissed out woodland creatures eating one another, It’s an underhanded attempt to reorder MAN (rather tyrannically) rather than reorder the atmosphere.

If the matter was real and serious, we wouldn’t have all of these tortured disagreements that require the dissolution of individual and local sovereignty, and would have genuine engineering issues to contend with. Instead what we find is the advocates starting with “we have to creat a new man” and childhood programming.

In fact the things deemed -too important to figure out- are precisely why I don’t give any credence to any theory favored by 20 year olds with no life experience.

]]> Comment on I’m impressed… by Stephen http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/2010/03/09/im-impressed/comment-page-1/#comment-1267 Stephen Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:35:49 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/?p=73#comment-1267 I think her point is it could actually be good for the EU to move unilaterally to the higher target, from a green growth and innovation point of view. I think her point is it could actually be good for the EU to move unilaterally to the higher target, from a green growth and innovation point of view.

]]> Comment on I’m impressed… by Edin Lucas http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/2010/03/09/im-impressed/comment-page-1/#comment-1265 Edin Lucas Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:39:00 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/?p=73#comment-1265 I'm a little baffled how the EU can commit itself to deeper emission cuts without taking the rest of the world with it. The US? Don't China and India have plans for 800 new power stations by 2025? (or have I got this wrong?). I’m a little baffled how the EU can commit itself to deeper emission cuts without taking the rest of the world with it. The US? Don’t China and India have plans for 800 new power stations by 2025? (or have I got this wrong?).

]]> Comment on Fish farce by Klaus Pedersen http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/2010/02/22/fish-farce/comment-page-1/#comment-1256 Klaus Pedersen Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:15:23 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/?p=71#comment-1256 I see nothing wrong with the small fishermen using lines to continue. After all their catch is insignificant and their impact negible compared to purse-seiners. The problem is that the "big boats" and traders are international, and they will simply go to third countries (like Libya) and find businessmen willing to pack and export their catch to Japan. The stakes are too high for them to walk away. I see nothing wrong with the small fishermen using lines to continue. After all their catch is insignificant and their impact negible compared to purse-seiners.
The problem is that the “big boats” and traders are international, and they will simply go to third countries (like Libya) and find businessmen willing to pack and export their catch to Japan. The stakes are too high for them to walk away.

]]> Comment on Fish farce by Jean-Baptiste Perrin http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/2010/02/22/fish-farce/comment-page-1/#comment-1248 Jean-Baptiste Perrin Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:32:23 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/?p=71#comment-1248 And even if this convention annex comes into force, smaller fishers will be exempted, which means the fishing of tuna will continue. And even if this convention annex comes into force, smaller fishers will be exempted, which means the fishing of tuna will continue.

]]> Comment on Fish farce by Channel Islands Proton 6′3 Surfboard | fish-surfboard.com http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/2010/02/22/fish-farce/comment-page-1/#comment-1247 Channel Islands Proton 6′3 Surfboard | fish-surfboard.com Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:40:46 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/?p=71#comment-1247 [...] Fish farce « The Digger [...] [...] Fish farce « The Digger [...]

]]> Comment on EU failure in the COP-15 cop out by Place Hacking | Savage Minds http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/2009/12/19/eu-failure-in-the-cop-15-cop-out/comment-page-1/#comment-1187 Place Hacking | Savage Minds Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:46:38 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/?p=67#comment-1187 [...] everyday experience, not governmental policy or cultural norms, just look at the recent failure at COP15 and compare it to what is happening in Iran at about the same time if you want an example of where [...] [...] everyday experience, not governmental policy or cultural norms, just look at the recent failure at COP15 and compare it to what is happening in Iran at about the same time if you want an example of where [...]

]]> Comment on EU failure in the COP-15 cop out by Georges http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/2009/12/19/eu-failure-in-the-cop-15-cop-out/comment-page-1/#comment-1131 Georges Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:38:34 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/gardner/?p=67#comment-1131 A failure of what precisely? A failure of what precisely?

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