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That document appears to be an academic exercise into how the UK could reach absolute zero emissions, not net zero but actually completely zero, and doing it us
by Nursie 4y ago
That document appears to be an academic exercise into how the UK could reach absolute zero emissions, not net zero but actually completely zero, and doing it using current tech.
This is not anyone's policy nor realistic.
(edit: putting further comments here as I am rate limited and unable to reply -
The paper itself says on page 4 that it is going over and above the climate commitments in law in the UK, and is about absolute zero emissions. It even says the paper is an appeal for public discussion and then goes on to set out what it means by Absolute Zero and how that differs from the current law.
This is not a policy document.
Heathrow's decision to cut flights is due to ongoing covid-related staffing problems, not environmental concerns.)
- walterbell 4y agoFrom the 2nd page of the document: > UK FIRES is a research programme sponsored by the UK Government, aiming to support a 20% cut in the UK’s true emissions by 2050 by placing Resource Efficiency at the heart of the UK’s Future Industrial Strategy. UK Heathrow recently tried to impose a 50% cut in daily passenger air traffic, from 200,000 to 100,000, https://www.emirates.com/media-centre/emirates-statement-on-operations-at-london-heathrow/ https://www.emirates.com/media-centre/emirates-statement-on-...
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- knowaveragejoe 4y agoDo you guys even think or look closer before spouting this stuff?
- eurasiantiger 4y agoWho are ”you guys”? I’m not even a guy. Have you perhaps been programmed to get triggered into a stereotypizing mindset?
- knowaveragejoe 4y agoYou aren't in on some secret about the "great replacement" - you're just incapable of understanding how poor the evidence supporting the theory is. I understand why it is appealing to some.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoYou have confused two different things here. ”The Great Reset” is a World Economic Forum programme. https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/ https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/
- knowaveragejoe 4y agoIt's like Agenda 21 - a real thing that conspiracists have twisted into some evil narrative and they're "fighting back", aka giving some meaning to their lives.
- mardifoufs 4y agoI think you are confusing the great reset with the great replacement? The first is more anti-elite/class warfare and has no racial narrative behind it. The second one is about racial replacement and amounts to thinly veiled racism. Am I missing something?
- knowaveragejoe 4y agoYou're correct, but in either case they are globe-spanning conspiracy theories
- woodruffw 4y agoIt's very explicitly an academic exercise. From the same page: > In response, this report starts from today’s technologies: if we really want to reach zero emissions in thirty years time, what does that involve? The UK has not made it an official policy to reach zero emissions in 30 years. The might have a policy to reach "net zero" emissions by 2050, which is completely different.
- irjustin 4y ago> UK Heathrow recently tried to impose a 50% cut in daily passenger air traffic, from 200,000 to 100,000 Not sure why you bring it up, yes they did, but in a completely unrelated manner to emissions. LHR wasn't prepared to handle the influx of passengers once travel picked up because of lack of staffing/readiness and they're trying to force the problem on airlines to handle. Of course airlines would reject this. Take the PR brunt of LHR's problem?
- zimpenfish 4y ago> UK Heathrow recently tried to impose a 50% cut in daily passenger air traffic Yes, because they don't have enough trained staff to handle the current volume[1]. Absolutely nothing to do with climate change, just trying to stop bad PR from delays to people going on holiday. [1] https://www.heathrow.com/latest-news/heathrow-implements-summer-2022-capacity-cap https://www.heathrow.com/latest-news/heathrow-implements-sum...
- msh 4y agoI would call it idiotic. They call for no shipping by 2050. Like a country in the modern world can survive without getting goods shipped in or out.
- rob74 4y agoIt's not idiotic, it's a theoretical scenario on how CO2 emissions could be reduced to zero (not net zero, actual zero) by 2050. And they don't "call for" it, they say that if the goal were to reach zero emissions by 2050, all ships that still burn CO2-producing fuels would have to stop doing that by that date.