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Climate change: Do we have the skills to tackle it?
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By working more closely with schools, colleges, and universities, can industry prioritise reskilling and upskilling the current workforce? How do we ensure future engineers have the right skills to address climate change? Comment below to share your thoughts! You can also learn more in our recent IET skills for net zero and a green recovery 2020 survey.
The simple solution, then, is not to spend billions of taxpayers money.
If somebody is polluting, tell them to stop polluting. Cost to the taxpayer - negligible. If we want more wind power and less gas, tax gas more and wind less - the net cost to the taxpayer can be zero if you wish. If we don't like plastic bags, tax them and don't tax paper ones. Cost to the taxpayer - negligible (or even negative). And so on.
All too often, people are desperately looking for excuses not to solve problems. Or simply denying that there is a problem.
We're supposed to be engineers. Engineers find solutions to problems. That's what they are for. Saying "it's all too hard" doesn't make any progress, ever.
The simple solution, then, is not to spend billions of taxpayers money.
If somebody is polluting, tell them to stop polluting. Cost to the taxpayer - negligible. If we want more wind power and less gas, tax gas more and wind less - the net cost to the taxpayer can be zero if you wish. If we don't like plastic bags, tax them and don't tax paper ones. Cost to the taxpayer - negligible (or even negative). And so on.
All too often, people are desperately looking for excuses not to solve problems. Or simply denying that there is a problem.
We're supposed to be engineers. Engineers find solutions to problems. That's what they are for. Saying "it's all too hard" doesn't make any progress, ever.
