Green issues to be the next political battle ground

With the EU renewable energy targets having recently been set it looks like green issues could become the next battle ground in politics.

In an article over at the BBC the two main parties are arguing over the best way to implement the up coming climate change bill, which is due to be released on Tuesday. The aim of the bill will be to reduce carbon emissions by 60% by 2050. Until the bill has been released there is no real clue as to how they are going to achieve this, however a lot of talk about raising taxes is being thrown around.

Beings Gordon Brown doesn't want to set any hard yearly targets, is this just an excuse to raise taxes and get some more money off us all? If we don't have something to aim for every year we could just end up getting to 2050 and saying oh well we didn't quite meet our targets what a shame.

If this is really going to work and not end up being an exercise in taxing people more, then we need yearly targets that the government would be forced to stick to.

Europe seems to be a big issue as well, there is a lot of talk about "Euroscepticism" making things harder to do, but why? If Europe doesn't want to join in now, then why don't we just go ahead and get things moving then worry about them later? A lot of Europe already have sustainable energy programs in place and are currently working more than likely much harder than we are to reduce their carbon emissions.

We're just going to have to wait and see what the climate change bill brings tomorrow. Hopefully it'll outline ways of allowing people to live a more sustainable live style rather than taxing them because their not.