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Cutting working hours could help save the planet
Workers in the UK would have to move to a 9-hour week to stay in line with the Paris Agreement. Here is how cutting working hours could help fight the climate crisis:
10/06/2019 16:54updated: 11/06/2019 17:04
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Jake H.
30/06/2019 10:38Ok how will britians economy stay competitive when we only work 9 hour a week. This is completely ridiculous. What our government should do is encourage land owners to plant X amount of trees on their land. Or plant several million trees, to encourage afforestation which could protect britians wildlife and capture excess CO2 being emitted.
Dawn H.
30/06/2019 08:51Aw that's nice is he going to come and pay my bills for me then??🤔🤔
David L.
29/06/2019 20:55What a load of crap climate is not driven by CO2 it's the sun and lunar activity so all this is for one reason only it allows extra taxes and carbon trading plus a de industrialisation of the west .
Karl A.
29/06/2019 11:24The gov doesnt want you to live long lives. Its why they raise the retirement age. Work ya till ya die.
Ryan D.
29/06/2019 10:44The more automation there is in the workplace the more achievable this becomes. However, the people that advocate for fewer working hours in the week tend to be the same people blocking automation at every turn. 🤷♂️
Deric B.
29/06/2019 06:39Biggest threat to climate change is population growth yet no one ever mentions it.
Garry M.
27/06/2019 22:33we would of course need to put the minimum wage up to £40 an hour , firms are realy going to love that now arnt they
Stephen B.
27/06/2019 20:50Of course it means a wage cut, it has to so that spending less means less carbon
Graham W.
27/06/2019 19:28I think most government workers already work less than 9hrs a month🤔
Scott B.
27/06/2019 19:11Why not an 8hr day with a decent wage
David J.
27/06/2019 18:36Its all about tinkering on the edge, making people think they are making a difference but its an illusion. In 1945 at the end of the second world war the population of the planet was around 2 billion, it's now around 8 billion, so a population increase of 6 billion in 73 years and still rising and these people all have a carbon footprint and they all want a good life style. With the continuing increasing population everything we are doing is in reality just tinkering on the edge. How much does the population have to increase before the world is in crisis ?
Paul C.
27/06/2019 16:39Cool.... that explains why those protesters never seem to work, and still get paid... they are saving the planet!
Beni B.
27/06/2019 16:23Fewer. Tut.
Steve N.
27/06/2019 09:17If we all work a 9 hour week how are we meant to pay our bills, buy food, pay the mortgage, council taxes, vat, income tax. The amount of revenue into the government coffers would be miniscule. The country would be bankrupt. But at least the environment would be saved. 😠
Steve G.
27/06/2019 07:01Less dough (a quantity) makes fewer loaves (a number). Comments relating dough to earnings will be considered too obvious to pass as wit, thank you. 😊
David G.
27/06/2019 05:18Oh, and please say ORIENTATE, not ORIENT our lives.
David G.
27/06/2019 05:16It’s FEWER hours, not LESS hours... I do, however, agree with this argument
Levi M.
26/06/2019 21:47imagine all the drinking we could get done
Arnold H.
26/06/2019 15:03What do people need to live on ,yes people we be more eco friendly cause if they dont use and re use everything and repair everything ,they wont have it cause no body other than the rich and super rich would be able to buy new things .
Andy M.
26/06/2019 07:44A ploy to keep the Plebs very poor and the Elite very rich indeed..!!