Paul Finch's Letter from London Measuring carbon is more art than science

摘要

Making cities sustainable is not a battle but a war - and a hundred years war at that. We know that the problems cities face will get worse before they get better and that, even if the war is successful, there are going to be heavy defeats along the way. Unfortunately (pursuing the analogy), the methods one would normally use to conduct a successful military campaign are difficult to deploy on a world scale across a century, especially given that our main combatant is neither country nor organisation, but a gas, ie carbon.