Drastic Action on Climate Change is Needed Now – and Here’s the Plan

By George Monbiot

The government must go further, and much faster, in its response to the moral question of the 21st century

So how do we do it without bringing civilisation crashing down? Here is a plan for drastic but affordable action that the government could take. It goes much further than the proposals discussed by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown yesterday, for the reason that this is what the science demands.