Answers from my parliamentary candidates

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[Cross-posted from my Wordpress account, which I haven't really started using yet.]

I have now received answers from three of my parliamentary candidates to the questions I sent them last month.  I've actually had them for a while but was holding out for a response from the Labour candidate before posting this, but it looks like she's not going to

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[witz66]

7 billion people in the world right now; 9 billion predicted by 2050; my naive maths would seem to suggest that we will need to drop our per capita carbon footprint by 7/9 (~23%) just to break even!

i'm sure the bnp and ukip have a solution but, as with the recent panorama episode that julie made a complaint against, i think they'd be missing the point somewhat - in a similar way to the tory mp who (relatively recently) suggested a solution to the ageing population problem was ... to have more babies!

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I agree entirely. The Green party's policies do address the problem of population growth, and make the sensible suggestion of supplying education and contraceptives to women in poor countries as one of the main ways population reduction could be achieved. But they want to decrease emissions by 90% (not 23%) by 2050, and they think it can be done without nuclear power, and without killing people. It's a worthy goal but hardly a realistic one.

I'll probably vote for them anyways. They're the bookies' favorite to win here, and I'm getting increasingly worried that the Tories could get in instead. I actually got some negative campaigning through the door against the greens the other day, from the Tory candidate, so that definitely seems to be where the battle lines are being drawn here.