Environmental Policy

SOLVING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

MEANS SOLVING ALL PROBLEMS

Summary and Aims of our policy.

To stabilise world climate, through achieving net zero carbon emissions.
To end habitat loss, and the species extinctions it causes.
To end all detrimental pollution.
To ensure all resource use is fully sustainable.
To restore ecosystems to their full diversity.
To increase land and sea area set aside for nature reserves, in every ecosystem.

Current unresolved issues.

Our aims above highlight all the problem areas we have. However all these problem areas are in a sense driven by two underlying issues. The first is lack of resources, particularly money, with which to solve the issues we have. If we had unlimited financial resources, it would be a straightforward matter to resolve the problems we have. This is because solving these problems is largely an infrastructure problem, we need new and improved infrastructure to solve our environmental problems. Things such as wind and solar farms, huge energy storage facilities to balance the supply of unreliable green energy, new sewage systems to deal with human waste, and many equipment improvements to minimise pollution in all businesses, and homes. The total bill for changing the British economy to a carbon neutral system, mitigating all pollution we generate, and cleaning up the damage we have done, is huge, we guess it would be more than our GDP.

The second underlying issue is population growth; we find it strange that it is the major and underlying driving force behind all environmental issues, but yet it is not highlighted by politicians and environmentalists. Population growth absolutely means more land for agriculture and infrastructure, more habitat loss, and more pollution. If we had one tenth of the world population we have today, living in exactly the same way we do now, we would have no serious environmental issues, the climate would not be significantly warming, there would be enough habitat for all species, and all our remaining pollution would be one tenth of what we have now.

It is a simple fact that if we continue to increase our population indefinitely, we will destroy every single peace of useable habitat we have on this planet, and cause the near total destruction of our ecosystem. This is true even in the case that we succeed in living in a way that is 100% carbon neutral, and non polluting, as it is a simple fact that more people means more habitat loss. It is absolutely that simple, there is no way around this problem, it is the elephant in the room, and we have to face it.

The lack of awareness of this simple fact causes fundamental misconceptions about environmental issues and how to solve them. Many people believe that the loss of jungles around the world is to do with logging and the demand for wood, growing palm oil, or other resources. This is not true, if the world population is stable, even if a logging company cuts down an area of jungle, they would move on and there would be no further use for the land, in which case it would return to jungle naturally, just as it has happened in many areas where secondary growth forests occur. Jungles are being permanently lost simply to make space for more agriculture to feed more people, and more infrastructure for them to live in.

There is another common misconception, people believe if they return productive farm land back to forest by planting trees on it, they are helping the environment. This is false, and in many cases it is actually detrimental to do this. The reason for this is simple, if you plant on productive farm land, you are reducing the amount of food produced on the planet. People do not eat less, so this food will have to be produced somewhere else in the world. This will most likely involve cutting down primary forest elsewhere, which means loosing a diverse and rich ecosystem, and replacing it with a much less diverse eco system of the newly planted wood on the agricultural land. This problem can be made even worse by the common situation where the jungle is considerably less productive than the agricultural land of the temperate areas that were planted with tress, and so you end up cutting down twice the area of jungle to replace the lost food production. The problem is made worse by yet two more factors, firstly rain will wash away much of the nutrients in the exposed jungle soil, or wash the soil away itself, and the sun which now directly falls on the tropical soil can cause chemical reactions in it which harden it and render it infertile. This means the land will become infertile, and the farmer will then cut down the same area again, to maintain his crop, sometimes only a few years later, and then the same again in another few years. So planting tress on fertile temperate farm land, can set up a chain reaction of jungle deforestation. The only time it is beneficial to plant trees on productive land, is if world population is reducing, causing a decrease in the requirement for farm land, and then planting this land with trees.

We trust this helps to explain the the two underlying problems, driving all the environmental issues we have, world population growth, and a lack of resources with which to clean up our human activity.

Our Policy - How it resolves the issues and achieves our aims.

We hope this discussion makes our strategy clear, solving all our environmental issues is a very practical problem, with straightforward practical solutions:

Stabilise and then slowly reduce world population.
Increase the efficiencies of our economies so that we have more resources to spend on cleaning up human activity, and the damage we have caused to our environment.

Our environmental issues link in directly with all the other issues we have on this planet. For example poverty means lack of education, which means higher birth rates, which means more deforestation, and even more poverty, which means less resources to fix an even bigger environmental problem. It is a vicious circle which cannot be broken unless we stabilise world population. You can construct many of these vicious circles, for example poverty in undeveloped countries, means that people do not have pensions, and instead they have children to take care of them in their older years, so this means more population, which can increase poverty further, which means more people with no pensions, and yet more children, thus creating an even greater repeat of the problem.

When people of any country are in a state of lacking resources and wealth, or are desperate, their immediate wellbeing or survival will come first, and this usually means the environment comes last. Resolving our environmental issues, therefore means resolving ourselves as human beings first. Then from here, resolving our politics and the way we live, so that we reduce our population, and have a highly productive stable economy that has the resources to clean everything up. All the problems we have as a race on earth are interlinked, it is impossible to separate out one problem, and fully resolve this. In order to fully solve any one problem on earth, we have to solve all problems, this means environmental problems are solved only by solving all other issues in our world. This means we all have our part to play in resolving environmental issues, and our role when in power is essentially nothing less than resolving the entirety of how the country is run.

As a result of this our environmental policy begins with all our other policies, the starting point of which is education. With education, people understand what the issues are, how to resolve them, and what role they must play in this, once this is achieved everything will become much easier, as everyone is working together toward a shared mutual goal. Highly educated stable societies tend to have stable or even falling populations, and this is our front line strategy in stabilising world population. We do not believe that force is necessary or beneficial in stabilising our population, it happens naturally when people are educated in the right ways and are comfortable in their lives. Education also helps people to understand how we need to manage our economy, make it highly efficient, and then use these extra resources to create the green infrastructure we require. Some of the specific strategies of our policy are as follows:

Education to promote the full understanding of how we cause, and can resolve environmental issues, through population management.
Education to promote the full understanding of how we cause, and can resolve environmental issues, through our economy, and how we manage it.
Restructuring of our economy to make it more efficient, to create extra funds.
Use the extra funds for expansion of our green energy infrastructure, to achieve 100% green energy.
Convert existing power stations to hydrogen, with hydrogen production and storage on site in order to create the green energy storage we need.
Use the extra funds for expansion of electric cars, green transport, and its infrastructure.
Investment to make homes more efficient such as heat pumps, and better insulation.
Investment to reduce the environmental impacts of all business and institutions.
Legislation to make all products and their packaging, more environmentally friendly and more recyclable.
Investment to maximise the recycling of all waste and rubbish.
Zero landfill policy.
Clean burning of non recyclable waste in waste to energy plants.
Linking power stations that produce waste heat with vegetable greenhouses that require heat.
Working with farmers to balance food production with environmental management.
Planting trees, and habitat restoration, on non-productive land where possible, such as moorlands, highlands, steep valley sides, marginal sites, disused land, and brownfield sites.
Continued research into green technologies such as better electric batteries, and fusion power.

Supporting policies.

Education Policy

Economic & Business Policy