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In focus with Sir Bernard Ingham
Up to our ears in debt but value for money still has no appeal
Well, now we know how much Chancellor George Osborne is committed to value for money in energy policy. Not much. True, in his autumn statement he halved subsidies for solar panels but only because their cost has come down substantially. He also brought in £250m energy cost relief for intensive energy users who are supposed to be a prime target for reducing carbon emissions, thereby complicating energy policy still further while usefully helping to retain heavy industry in the UK.
Kirk convener Morag Mylne thinks that the Christian view is that God didn't create the Earth for us 'to do with as we please' ('Energy is an ethical dilemma', 15 May). Perhaps she's forgotten God's instruction to Adam and Eve that they should have dominion over every creature and subdue the earth (Gen. 1:28). According to this Jewish tradition, God made the earth for mankind to exploit. So why does a Christian think that the Earth was not created for mankind's benefit? And if not for that purpose, for what purpose?
In particular, how did God think we were going to generate electricity
and how did he think we could do it without having any environmental
effect? Perhaps he didn't care; that was up to us. As for nuclear
power, a theist could argue that uranium, which has no use except for
making bombs or generating electricity, was created by God for those
very purposes.
