The UK government recently announced its target to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 in the face of it .. very admirable...but.... I wonder how this will compliment the plans for a third runway at Heathrow or help deal with the fact that last winter it’s estimated 50,000 pensioners died because they could not afford to heat their homes!! The UK is responsible for only 1% of global emissions and I don’t see the rest of the world having such ambitious lower emission...s targets so I guess one way towards the UK meeting their targets is by exporting heavy industries abroad (and the jobs with them) then import the resulting goods that will be then manufactured in another country ... thus moving the emissions from being generated in the UK to being generated somewhere else in the world ... but hey... the Greens will be happy in their ignorant bliss....and to think that the recent “Extinction Rebellion’s” protests and road closures here were to demand such a reduction target be reached in the UK within 6 years instead of 31!!!
So what we have is a danger due to every political party wanting to jump on the 100 percent carbon free bandwagon and the ignorance of a (some) electorate not understanding the redistribution of emissions as heavy industrial produced goods will be manufactured in other countries with less regulation and we have less jobs here which will impact on our economy and import such goods from such countries with less regulations .... the decline of Britain and the ascension of China ... but we will certain look better environmentally on paper due to less emissions so the environmentalists will be happy!!!
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