Outsourcing the Problem: Consumption, Climate and China
Public Interest Research Centre - Non-Profit - www.pirc.info
Help us reveal an untold scandal: how the West exports carbon emissions to countries like China - expecting them to pay for the impact of our consumption. We need an engaging animation to explain the problem - for which we'll provide research, a voiceover from George Monbiot, and promotion from ChinaDialogue. The animation will inform the public, inspire campaigners and give us a tool to lobby government to take responsibility.
AdminSimon A. Nurse
(Admin, Free Range Studios' Youtopia)
shared this idea
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Kate
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when it comes to the crunch we can't outsource the planet. Good luck with getting funding.
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tegwen
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This is a great idea to expose the reality of a little known situation! Good luck
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Anna
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Best of luck!
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Robert Hutchison
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We are so good at self-delusion in the UK - anything that opens eyes to the damage that we are doing is needed and welcome!
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Claire Arthur
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This is a really crucial area. Hope you get the funding to make it happen. We need a turning point on this one - it's been buried in the sand too long.
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Julia Johnson
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Good luck for a good cause
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Tony Grayling
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It's important that the UK's full carbon footprint is understood taking account of imports and exports.
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Bruce Heagerty
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Sounds a great project! This needs wider media exposal. If you take our outsourced emissions into account it makes a mockery of the government's claim that the UK's emissions have gone down over the last few years. It's like saying we're slimming because we've reduced our doughnut production here, while still importing loads more doughnuts from abroad and getting royally obese on them.
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Khemasuri
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Great, I hope you get the funding to go ahead!
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HET
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Best of luck - about time this was highlighted.
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Tom L
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There are few issues as important and little understood as this one. Without public understanding of carbon outsourcing a meaningful climate change policy dialogue is impossible.
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Michael Jeans-Jakobsson
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Best of luck!
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Martin Quick
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Good idea to get responsibility for emissions where it really lies
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Adrian Peeler
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This should be brought into the open and explained in simple terms to the public.
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Nick Jones
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This is particularly prescient as the changes to the CRC (as part of the CSR) could mean the outsourcing of data centres from the UK, since the removal of the recycling payment mechanism in the CRC adds 10% to data centre energy costs:
http://dcsg.bcs.org/crc-grows-real-tax
Good luck Tim.
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Loic Lopez
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This carbon wisper corruption by the West must be made public, you get my vote.
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Neil Dawson
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Whether an individual or a country responsibility should be accepted for over consumption
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Gunnar Boye Olesen
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Great idea
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Derek
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Sounds very worthwhile!
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Susan Seymour commented
Hope this helps.