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Interesting start to Simon reeves new adventure on the bbc. Heading from Alaska down through North America to the foot of South America. Something I plan to do one day myself. Starting in Alaska he was flown north by a lady pilot who had been doing the run for 15 years, in that time the glacier she was flying over had lost 200 ft in height and had a lake on its surface aswell as exposing rocks never seen before. I guess when all the ice caps melt, the rainforests have gone, we can look back through our oxygen masks and sigh...at least we will still have 800 tv channels to watch.
[QUOTE=Croesy Blue;5010715]It was in a conversation about scrapping income tax. I don't think he needed to explicitly spell it out.[/
Whatever. Enjoy your day!
Here is some evidence which makes interesting reading.
Globally, the UK is not even in the top 15 of carbon emissions and in fact is measured at 1.1%.
Compared to the international table, tighter laws in the UK would not make any difference to GLOBAL climate change.
50% of the emissions are down to 3 countries.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all...-in-one-chart/
No surprise that China and India are up there. Those two really need to sort it out....
It wont be enough for them , this movement in my view is about attacking capitalism , climate is just a front and emotional mechanism .
Strangely they will need capitalist generated money and solution , along with bigger tax on product , more sophisticated packaging and products , such as electric cars , all of which will badly effect the lower paid and their current manufacturing jobs.
I suggest the rebellion take their army off to China , Russia and India ( SEE HOW WELL THAT GOES ) rather than take on a tolerate country trying to do the right thing , yes we are slow , however there is a reason for that , it will cost trillions to deploy in the timescales demanded by these warriors ,and those trillions are not growing on a tree ??
So do China, they’re actually doing a lot in China. But the Chinese companies ina Africa take the piss.
Electric cars are becoming quite popular over there, probably see at least as many as here, Tesla's and Chinese manufacturers as well.
It's definitely attractive for net oil importing nations, as with petrol or diesel there is a constant bleeding of money out of the country to places they produce oil
Of course you do use more fossil fuels to produce the electricity than you would have done to just use petrol, but it's trendy and those with subnormal intellects and corporate clients will pay the extra for the sake of the virtue signalling premium.
Electric cars are much more efficient so less fossil fuel is used to charge a car than would be used in petrol for it to travel the same distance. That's also ignroing the fact that the energy mix in countries (even China) fossil fuel use is decreasing every year and renewables and nuclear are on the increase making them even more environmentally friendly.
The main reason electric car use is encouraged in city centres though is simply because the air is cleaner. Better to keep the noxious air out near remote power stations than where people are shopping and working.
Even if you take into account that building an electric car produces more CO2 (mainly due to the battery production) studies have shown over it's lifetime an electric car would still be responsible for only 80% of the emissions of a petrol car.