Really fucks me off that he’s trying to spin this as “supporting hard pressed families”. They’ve spent 13 years being the ones causing that “hard press”, cutting benefits, cutting funding for services, etc. Someone needs to ask him why they suddenly care now.
How could Sunak “sell out” when he has no credibility to sell?
Scum
I was out all of yesterday and haven’t had time to listen to the announcement but as I understand it this is the same target as the EU.
Is Sunak “scum” because he changed his mind or are the EU also “scum”?
Love the username BTW. Powerpuff Girls?
Really anyone who’s living the good life while they condemn the rest of humanity to suffer the coming climate catastrophe. He has some capacity to change things, yet here we are.
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Also yes. Mojojojo. Egggggggssssss
Again, I have only seen a five minute news clip this morning but as far as I understand climate change is going to screw us all. There’s no escape from it whether your rich or poor. He does however have the ability to swap his cars to electric right now whilst poorer people and businesses on limited cash flows don’t. This might ease at least that burden for them? And obviously nothing is stopping you personally from swapping your car out if you can afford it, right? He’s just saying of you can’t afford it you have slightly longer. People should make their own personal goals of 2030 regardless of what the government says.
What I haven’t seen is any concrete steps of how we go from here to 2035 and what infrastructure or funding will be put in place to actually reach the goal.
I know others have answered, but just to bring up a few points that might sway you to seeing why it is incorrect to assume that climate change will affect everyone equally: Storm surges are likely to increase along coastlines. If you are wealthy enough you can move further inland or take additional precautions like installing infrastructure to protect your home/land. You likely also have better insurance with higher premiums, but which will help in the event that your home or property is damaged. The same is true for those in areas prone to things like tornadoes and wildfires. You also are more likely to have the resources to evacuate quickly in the event of an emergency and pay for lodging for extended periods of time until the area you live is safe to return to. Additionally, crop failures will affect everyone, but less so those who are able to pay extra for food. Right now many people struggle to afford the basics, and because of how we operate economically, there is incentive to raise prices when things are harder to obtain. This includes simple staples like cereals/fruits/vegetables/etc and like we recently saw… eggs. Infrastructure is another area where we will begin to see large disparities, as older communities struggle to keep up with changing climates. Floods can be mitigated somewhat by enlarging drainage, but only if the city/state/municipality can afford to do so. I’m not trying to harp on you for not knowing, but it’s important that these things are considered when we discuss the inequities between rich and poor going forward (we’ve already seen these, but they will be compounded going forward at an even more accelerated rate).
as far as I understand climate change is going to screw us all. There’s no escape from it whether your rich or poor.
That’s extraordinarily naive. Of course having all the power will make a difference. Would you rather be a billionaire or a normal human being during a climate apocalypse?
Thank you for selectively quoting me. Not sure you got past the first sentence. I’ve highlighted the rest for your approval.
as I understand climate change is going to screw us all. There’s no escape from it whether your rich or poor. He does however have the ability to swap his cars to electric right now whilst poorer people and businesses on limited cash flows don’t. This might ease at least that burden for them?
I’ve explained in another comment that I haven’t seen any concrete detail on how the delay will help improve the situation but that I kinda understand the logic that if you’re poorer you might need more time to take action and swap your car out.
So question for you: are you happy to force people / businesses that can’t afford large jumps in expenditure to swap their cars? Or people that have no access to nearby charging stations?
What I’d like to see are concrete announcements that say between now and 2035 this is how we’ll alleviate the situation for the majority of the population that might fall into that category and this is why we can’t do it for 2030. I’ve not seen that so I remain sceptic about this new policy. I don’t see that as controversial but apparently it is 🤷?
The point I made was only about the ability of the rich vs. poor to survive in a climate apocalypse. That’s why I selected the part of your comment pertaining to that.
I’m not taking about a gradual, genteel descent into a mini ice age, I’m talking about a cataclysm which changes the aspect of humanity.
Forcing people to swap their cars is peanuts compared to the roiling climate we are producing. We can either force small business owners to go green and hurt their profits, or we can render the planet uninhabitable. Your perspective is parochial and unscientific.
This is how you find out how much integrity a politician has.
A big “fuck the planet” sign would have been a better way to communicate it. Wankers.
Vile disgusting human. Things are going to ramp up now in terms of protest and direct action. People are going to become more extreme in their actions.
Unpopular Tory prime minister directing policy for future unpopular Labour party because he knows unpopular Labour leader won’t reverse course from unpopular Tory party decision.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Shadow environment secretary Steve Reed said without the ban the UK would miss its target to hit net zero - this is the point at which a country is no longer adding to the overall amount of harmful greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Mr Reed said the prime minster had “sold out the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st Century” for Britain “to lead the world in transition to well-paid secured new jobs of the green economy”.
“We risk condemning people to many more years of living in cold and draughty homes that are expensive to heat, in cities clogged with dirty air from fossil fuels, missing out on the economic regeneration this ambition brings,” Mr Norbury said.
Jaguar Land Rover, which announced hundreds of new jobs in the West Midlands a few days ago, welcomed the change, calling it “pragmatic” and adding that it brings the UK in line with other nations.
Elsewhere, Mr Sunak also suggested he would be “scrapping” a range of proposals which had been “thrown up” by the debate, including hiking up air fares to discourage foreign holidays and taxes on meat consumption.
Speaking to Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday, Mr Stark added that the committee had already advised the government in June that it “didn’t look like we were on track” to meet 2030 emissions targets, before these changes were announced.
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WTF are you doing? 🤦♂️
Tbh you could see this coming, they haven’t built nearly enough infrastructure to support EVs , their empty promises were very transparent
