ONE OF THE biggest challenges of responding to climate change is that it seems like a huge complex global problem – the domain of intergovernmental conferences and specialists. Most Western governments conspire to make it a distant conundrum for experts to solve. But climate change is about energy, and it is really something we all deal with all day, every day. Making it a distant issue deprives us of one of the best ways of solving it – because if energy use by people is part of the problem, then surely people should also be part of the solution. Decentralising power production allows that to ...
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