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So Boris wants to cut emissions 68% by 2030 to save the planet by preventing climate change.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55179008

Meeting the UK's world-leading climate change target will be a "colossal challenge", a government spending watchdog has warned.

The National Audit Office says it will affect the way we work, travel, heat our homes - even how much meat we eat.

In a report it says the cost of cutting CO2 is highly uncertain, but the cost of allowing temperatures to rise would probably be greater.

The PM has vowed to cut emissions by 68% by 2030 based on 1990 levels.


This is the amount that Britain will affect the world.....Shouldn't Boris be looking after the UK rather than putting obstacles in the way, especially when it will have virtually no effect whatsoever and create poverty and unemployment.

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05-12-2020, 11:05 PM
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Britain has always been green, regardless of the demise of Fossil fuel, it will be the same viewed from a glorified Milk Float.
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Brilliant Foxy. That's how much we affect the rest of the World in most other matters too. I hate to think where we are going to borrow all the money to do all this. Pie in the sky doesn't cover it.
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Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->
So Boris wants to cut emissions 68% by 2030 to save the planet by preventing climate change.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55179008

Meeting the UK's world-leading climate change target will be a "colossal challenge", a government spending watchdog has warned.

The National Audit Office says it will affect the way we work, travel, heat our homes - even how much meat we eat.

In a report it says the cost of cutting CO2 is highly uncertain, but the cost of allowing temperatures to rise would probably be greater.

The PM has vowed to cut emissions by 68% by 2030 based on 1990 levels.


This is the amount that Britain will affect the world.....Shouldn't Boris be looking after the UK rather than putting obstacles in the way, especially when it will have virtually no effect whatsoever and create poverty and unemployment.

Yes indeed. A fool and our money is easily parted!

Of course, in ten years' time Boris might not still be here.
We may have somehow managed to elect someone more down to earth, although HS2 will still be being built of course!
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Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->
So Boris wants to cut emissions 68% by 2030 to save the planet by preventing climate change.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55179008

Meeting the UK's world-leading climate change target will be a "colossal challenge", a government spending watchdog has warned.

The National Audit Office says it will affect the way we work, travel, heat our homes - even how much meat we eat.

In a report it says the cost of cutting CO2 is highly uncertain, but the cost of allowing temperatures to rise would probably be greater.

The PM has vowed to cut emissions by 68% by 2030 based on 1990 levels.


This is the amount that Britain will affect the world.....Shouldn't Boris be looking after the UK rather than putting obstacles in the way, especially when it will have virtually no effect whatsoever and create poverty and unemployment.

You have to extrapolate that 1% to all the second hand emissions we generate in importing from China.... so each of the western countries on the list have a share of the blame for Chinese emissions.

The exception being the US which is the big culprit generating internal emissions and Biden should help reduce their carbon footprint.
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Originally Posted by AnnieS ->
You have to extrapolate that 1% to all the second hand emissions we generate in importing from China.... so each of the western countries on the list have a share of the blame for Chinese emissions.

The exception being the US which is the big culprit generating internal emissions and Biden should help reduce their carbon footprint.
In other words, inconveniencing ourselves at great expense is going to make a negligible effect on the planet as a whole, but on the other hand will make PC snowflakes feel much happier with themselves.
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In other words, inconveniencing ourselves at great expense is going to make a negligible effect on the planet as a whole, but on the other hand will make PC snowflakes feel much happier with themselves.
We import pollution because of our entitlement culture. That entitlement = our lifestyle taking for granted where everything we buy is manufactured or where inputs are sourced. So we are all the "snowflakes". The supply chains feeding into our country (and others like us) are destroying the planet.
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NB I'm not making a moral judgement by what I say. Just stating a fact. There isn't much we can do to change the way we live. The efforts re emissions etc are symbolic political gestures. It would take hundreds of years to reverse the damage. (not scientific fact just my guesstimate)
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Seems the UK produces 1% of the problem yet is trying to shoulder 90% of the solution, completely bonkers if you ask me.
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Originally Posted by Barry ->
Seems the UK produces 1% of the problem yet is trying to shoulder 90% of the solution, completely bonkers if you ask me.
Not if we're paid for it .... developing & exporting environmentally friendly technologies.
 
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