Tech fixes are not going to get us out of the climate mess, despite what companies and government’s around the world are peddling. On a recent visit to The Hague, I learned investment in carbon offsetting companies has unbelievably increased 300-fold in recent years while the money being pumped into as yet unproven carbon capture technology has risen by 100.
I also met companies coming up with real solutions for driving down fossil fuels rather than tinkering around the edges - but alarmingly, investment in innovations to reduce our need for climate-burning oil and gas is falling according to . Read more: Badger cull 'culled' by Belfast High Court Read more: 'Badgers should be vaccinated for bovine TB not killed' When venture capitalists throw their money at something - we all know they want returns and fast. And that appears to be where capitalism - if that’s even what out monetary system can still call itself - is at. But it’s not doing the world, people, nature and just about everything else on this planet any favours - aside from the super ric