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The same UK had its CO2 emissions per capita peak in 1973 and lowered that number by over 45% since then. Sure, some of that happened through offshoring, but s
by Tade0 6y ago
The same UK had its CO2 emissions per capita peak in 1973 and lowered that number by over 45% since then.
Sure, some of that happened through offshoring, but still - it's nothing to sneer at.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoWhat you are referring to is production-based CO2 accounting, whereas we really should be taking consumption-based CO2 metric. No doubt progress has been made, but it's a fraction of what it should be. Uk had a chance to invest in nuclear power and didn't, has poor quality housing / insulation resulting in a lot of unnecessary CO2 emissions and money wasted on heating, and has a stupid law that banned large (read: economical) wind turbines!
- Tade0 6y agoWhat about Hinkley Point C? Sure, financially the results so far are terrible, but so are other such projects in Europe.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoIt's good in the environmental seance, but what I meant was: in the 80's Uk had a chance to invest in nuclear to become like France, almost entirely nuclear-powered. Instead the skills needed to build nuclear power-plants have been lost, and now even replacing existing few reactors is a great challenge.