I think we should separate U.K. rhetoric from slowly dying government rhetoric.
You don’t need the guardian to tell you this: go outside and look around.
Nothing that comes out of Westminster has any bearing on the true situation in the UK, it’s a badly scripted soap opera, aimed at entertaining enough gullible thickos just long enough, that by the time things turns ugly, those responsible will be long gone.
We are stilled obsessed with buying our way out of climate change, not on cutting back our consumption of global resources. Electric cars form part of the solution to climate change, however we should focus on significantly reducing the number of vehicles on the road and stop thinking every family should have multiple cars too. Green consumerism is still consumerism and will still result in us plundering the Earth’s resources. With close to 8 billion people on the planet, we cannot consume at the rate we are anymore, whether it is green or not. A truly green economy would prioritise consuming less.
Come now… we don’t do or lead anything anymore.
The government says we do and then everybody goes back to watching TV with a warm glow.
The country lies, no need to fact check.
This wasn’t really the article I thought it was going to be. He never really compared the UK to other countries which is what I take “Leading the way” to mean.
>All of which sounds mightily impressive. The problem is the claims of global leadership don’t tally with the hard data. Turnover in the low-carbon and renewable energy sector was the same in 2020 as in 2014. The number of people employed has actually fallen by 28,000 to just over 200,000.
He never references data from other countries so how can he comment on whether the claims of global leadership tally or not.
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I think we should separate U.K. rhetoric from slowly dying government rhetoric.
You don’t need the guardian to tell you this: go outside and look around.
Nothing that comes out of Westminster has any bearing on the true situation in the UK, it’s a badly scripted soap opera, aimed at entertaining enough gullible thickos just long enough, that by the time things turns ugly, those responsible will be long gone.
We are stilled obsessed with buying our way out of climate change, not on cutting back our consumption of global resources. Electric cars form part of the solution to climate change, however we should focus on significantly reducing the number of vehicles on the road and stop thinking every family should have multiple cars too. Green consumerism is still consumerism and will still result in us plundering the Earth’s resources. With close to 8 billion people on the planet, we cannot consume at the rate we are anymore, whether it is green or not. A truly green economy would prioritise consuming less.
Come now… we don’t do or lead anything anymore.
The government says we do and then everybody goes back to watching TV with a warm glow.
The country lies, no need to fact check.
This wasn’t really the article I thought it was going to be. He never really compared the UK to other countries which is what I take “Leading the way” to mean.
>All of which sounds mightily impressive. The problem is the claims of global leadership don’t tally with the hard data. Turnover in the low-carbon and renewable energy sector was the same in 2020 as in 2014. The number of people employed has actually fallen by 28,000 to just over 200,000.
He never references data from other countries so how can he comment on whether the claims of global leadership tally or not.