Somehow people think this is irrelevant. It’s “climate denial” to notice that China has more emissions than the rest of the developed world combined and they’re rising rapidly

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I don’t get it. The UK has Net Zero policies in place as legislation. The government can be sued if it doesn’t meet targets that it itself set, and it itself legislated. 

Net Zero targets that will impoverish the nation -- indeed are already costing the poorest people in the UK the most. 

But somehow, the fact that China is there on the chart above, with rapidly rising emissions -- MORE than all the rest of the developed world combined -- is somehow “irrelevant”? The UK and others in the west are to impoverish themselves by Net Zero, while nothing is demanded of China? 

This is almost the definition of crazy. 

The UK is going not just for Net Zero, but is playing around with “Absolute Zero”. Which in my mind is “Absolute Insanity”.  Look at the chart, from the “Absolute Zero” site, which is funded by the UK government -- 

• All airports closed by 2030 (!!!); 
• No more petrol cars by 2030; 
• All shipping to cease by 2030 (!!!); 
• Beef and lamb “cut out” completely by 2030 (!!).

Click, enlarge, and cry....😢

If this is the price we have to pay to have a world, I don’t want a world!!

ADDED: A fun moving chart of how quickly China has become the world’s largest emitter of CO2. But is studiously ignored by the Just Stop Oil crowds and the rest of the chatterati. 

ADDED (ii) : look at the chart at the top again: ALL of Australia, France, Germany, the UK could all stop producing any CO2 at all, and it would make Zip difference. I mean it. Zip. Yet all these countries, especially Germany, the Uk and Australia have policies that will impoverish themselves, and hurt their poor people the most. The way forward is mitigation, not abatement that impoverishes countries for no difference. While carrying on with reducing CO2 emissions. 

ADDED (iii): Tony Blair surprises with a some sanity. That’s to say, reality: 

Blair has caused a bit of ruckus in the UK this week thanks to an interview with center-left magazine the New Statesman in which the former Labour Party leader questions the wisdom of unilateral action on climate change. Blair called climate change “the single biggest global challenge” before saying of UK efforts to cut carbon emissions: “Don’t ask us to do a huge amount when, frankly, whatever we do in Britain is not really going to [affect] climate change.

“One year’s rise in China’s emissions would outscore the whole of Britain’s emissions for a year,” said Blair. The numbers prove the point: Britain emits 350 million tons of CO2 a year and in 2021 Chinese emissions increased by 510 million tons, to 11.5 billion.