Why is geothermal energy still just a nice idea here?

A collection of climate stories mostly

View over the city of Aarhus, Denmark (source: flickr/ IMBiblio, creative commons)

Although I read and subscribe to a number of US journalists whose focus is climate change and a net zero future as quickly as possible, I’m not sure US public opinion is quite on the same page, not even the same book.

The antics of Republican party politicians and their voters, probably many Democrats too, seems to summarise neatly how wedded many American citizens are to consumerism, business growth, gun ownership, god and maintaining good old-fashioned party values. There seems to be next to no room for anything as plain wrong as a carbon neutral existence, because that simply wouldn’t be American, now would it?

If I’m doing them a disservice, I only need to reflect on my own experiences in the UK, which I would best sum up as short-term nimbyism and a political system which mirrors America. They both seem to attract rotten apples.

If Brits are just a diluted version of guzzling Americans, where are the countries and cultures where climate change is being taken more seriously?

Two countries, Bhutan and Suriname, have already achieved carbon negative status, managing to remove more…