The goals are extremely tough and although it does look like they all won’t be hit they changes being made are quite significant.
>And it warns that ministers need a back-up plan, including measures they may prefer to avoid such as asking the public to change behaviour by eating less meat and flying less.
Unpopular opinion but this shouldn’t be a backup plan. We should be doing it in parallel with other efforts. I get that no one wants to change their behaviour but reducing the impact of the climate crisis requires both restrictions on the corporations who pollute and a change in mindset from consumers who keep them in business.
Frequently flying makes up a large chunk of a person’s carbon footprint:
Meat consumption is not only a large source of emissions, but in the UK (and I suspect most other countries) is incredibly cruel because we factory farm most of our animals:
What I have never ever understood is how all the high rise offices in cities like London are allowed to leave all their office lights blazing all night. You can’t tell me that these city companies have full 24 hour shift work of a full complement of staff? The electricity they waste is criminal.
I’m listening to them earnestly discussing this on R4 WatO, but the BBC ignore all the climate implications of every story they report on which isn’t specifically about the environment.
The irony of them earnestly discussing the importance of insulation because of the Parliamentary report, when they treated the Insulate Britain protests as an opportunity to discuss the morality of protests inconveniencing people and avoided discussing the insulation problem in Britain, is staggering.
Just before the news today, You and Yours had a long feature on how people can afford clothes now, without any reference to the terrible climate footprint of the fast fashion several people interviewed said they relied on.
Why can’t they talk about the climate implicates of the stories they report on?
No one wants to think about the fact that the lifestyle we’ve been sold isn’t possible. But we have to.
We are running out of manoeuvring room, and if we aren’t deciding how we deal with it, we will be forced into a very painful and punitive version of the society we have.
When I put my Cassandra hat on I feel like we are nearing the end of an international staring contest and waiting to see who blinks first. A few more reports about missing CO2 targets and its implications and governments are going to switch over to adaptation and mitigation strategies.
The CO2 footprint of major infrastructure is huge, once that gets factored in all bets are off regarding targets.
Tories are failing to keep their promises? Heck that’s never happened before …
Just forget about the goals for a while. There is no point to live a poor life just for unachievable goals.
The goals: None.
Until nuclear is used green energy will continue to fail.
Most people are OK with this though, so it is not like this will cost the government a lot of votes in the long run. The fact is that the majority of people only want to make small changes to their lifestyles, with some refusing to make any changes at all too. The measures the government is aiming for are not going to go far enough, yet we are still failing to meet those. This is despite us doing more than most countries too. If that does not tell you how things are going to go with respect to climate change then I don’t know what to tell you.
Lol.
The Climate is the least of “Boris and friends” concerns.
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The goals are extremely tough and although it does look like they all won’t be hit they changes being made are quite significant.
>And it warns that ministers need a back-up plan, including measures they may prefer to avoid such as asking the public to change behaviour by eating less meat and flying less.
Unpopular opinion but this shouldn’t be a backup plan. We should be doing it in parallel with other efforts. I get that no one wants to change their behaviour but reducing the impact of the climate crisis requires both restrictions on the corporations who pollute and a change in mindset from consumers who keep them in business.
Frequently flying makes up a large chunk of a person’s carbon footprint:
[https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200218-climate-change-how-to-cut-your-carbon-emissions-when-flying](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200218-climate-change-how-to-cut-your-carbon-emissions-when-flying)
Meat consumption is not only a large source of emissions, but in the UK (and I suspect most other countries) is incredibly cruel because we factory farm most of our animals:
Environment [https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production](https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production)
Welfare [https://eatfair.org/welfare/united-kingdom](https://eatfair.org/welfare/united-kingdom)
What I have never ever understood is how all the high rise offices in cities like London are allowed to leave all their office lights blazing all night. You can’t tell me that these city companies have full 24 hour shift work of a full complement of staff? The electricity they waste is criminal.
I’m listening to them earnestly discussing this on R4 WatO, but the BBC ignore all the climate implications of every story they report on which isn’t specifically about the environment.
The irony of them earnestly discussing the importance of insulation because of the Parliamentary report, when they treated the Insulate Britain protests as an opportunity to discuss the morality of protests inconveniencing people and avoided discussing the insulation problem in Britain, is staggering.
Just before the news today, You and Yours had a long feature on how people can afford clothes now, without any reference to the terrible climate footprint of the fast fashion several people interviewed said they relied on.
Why can’t they talk about the climate implicates of the stories they report on?
No one wants to think about the fact that the lifestyle we’ve been sold isn’t possible. But we have to.
We are running out of manoeuvring room, and if we aren’t deciding how we deal with it, we will be forced into a very painful and punitive version of the society we have.
When I put my Cassandra hat on I feel like we are nearing the end of an international staring contest and waiting to see who blinks first. A few more reports about missing CO2 targets and its implications and governments are going to switch over to adaptation and mitigation strategies.
The CO2 footprint of major infrastructure is huge, once that gets factored in all bets are off regarding targets.
Tories are failing to keep their promises? Heck that’s never happened before …
Just forget about the goals for a while. There is no point to live a poor life just for unachievable goals.
The goals: None.
Until nuclear is used green energy will continue to fail.
Most people are OK with this though, so it is not like this will cost the government a lot of votes in the long run. The fact is that the majority of people only want to make small changes to their lifestyles, with some refusing to make any changes at all too. The measures the government is aiming for are not going to go far enough, yet we are still failing to meet those. This is despite us doing more than most countries too. If that does not tell you how things are going to go with respect to climate change then I don’t know what to tell you.
Lol.
The Climate is the least of “Boris and friends” concerns.