The UK’S emissions are a drop in the ocean compared to various other nations, our marginal contribution is minuscule
That’s because if they publish it, they will have to explain why they’re not doing enough about it.
- Fat majority in parliament
- Mandate for change
- Predecessor hated for being “more of the same”
- “Burnham Bounce”
- Just had a summer of extreme weather.
- 80% of UK population want more/faster action on climate.
If no help is coming from the government now, I doubt it’s going to happen any time soon.
Modern civilization’s greatest failure, earth’s climate. Not a failure of science, but of control structures, failures of governments to act on humankind’s behalf.
This Labour government comes in at a close second though, as far as greatest failures go
I feel like every story I hear out of the UK lately is some weird combination of stupid and vaguely dystopian.
Are things ok over there?
Bruh… Orwell literally wrote about how authoritarian the British government was in the 50s. Of course 1984 was highly exaggerated at that point, but the point still stands.
No, the world’s former premier colonizer is not okay. All that shit they did is turning inwards, just like in US. Not saying the common person deserves is, unlike weird tankies fetishizing suffering of the west as some kind of karmaic justice. The Global South is still suffering too. No one is having a good time.
Are things ok anywhere?
There was a pretty good day localized to my apartment yesterday 🤷🏻
Did you not even have to use your AK?
Did that good day require drugs though?
I mean fuck the British government, but how much more explosive-then-ignored can those reports get. Extremely depressing to see the already way too permissive 1.5%-target get pushed up to 2.8% or whatever.
I agree with your point, but I suppose the reason they want to sit on the report is so they don’t get accused of ignoring the advice that the report they commissioned recommended.
Oh sure, mine was just a side remark wrt this article.
pushed up to 2.8% or whatever.
That’s optimistic, here’s Bill McGuire on the issue
Emeritus Professor Bill McGuire gives a good precies here
AMOC shutting down and -35 to -50ºC winter temperatures in the next 80 years?
Worst case of course.
Yeah… Europe will soon find out how great they had things at such a high latitude.
Aka what being on the edge of the Arctic Circle feels like without AMOC.
The UK cannot escape from reality. The effects of climate change from drought to intense rain will be evident.
we make tea with wee when it’s bad.
Maybe they’re worried how extreme emigration would get if people knew what the UK was going to look like? Think of the flood of capital out.
Edit: to make it clear: emigration is when people leave a country.
Neolib climate killers.
He doesn’t want to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theatre.
He’s not. He’s the one locking the doors when there actually is a fire.
Sorry. There are two possible meanings for the idiom “don’t yell fire in a crowded theatre”:
The benevolent is to avoid a crowd’s panic. The selfish is to make your exit first, before the crowd’s panic.
I’m not close enough to British politics to say one way or another. But the idiom fits either way.
More like he doesn’t want to vindicate the people who’ve been screaming their lungs out for the last decades, while being victimized and brutalized.
