Climate change

[ihaveawedgie]

I've been thinking about this. I just want to be educated.

If the UK emits 1% of the world's CO2... why does the UK still need to cut emissions further? Like what would the impact be on the global climate?

There's reams of this online.

Rather than starting a Sunday scrap where some people are weaving yogurt and some won't go to the end of their road without being in their range rover, have a read at the arguments, all sides, by informed experts with access to data.

Short answer to your enquiry, is every little helps. Every tonne of carbon that goes into the atmosphere will have an effect from now on.

The UK imports a lot, oil, food, steal, everything, which means everyone has an interest in trying to keep the climate as predictable as possible. Food and fuel stresses cause mass migration and conflict, higher prices. It affects everyone with almost everything they do and it's going to get much worse. By slowing things down as much as we can the inevitable pain will be spread over a longer period.

The short answer is you have to lead by example.

It is unrealistic to expect everyone else to cut their emissions and bear the cost and impact of that while we don't have to.

WHY do we have to lead by example? why? Why just us?

if co2 needs to be reduced globally, it would surely be better as a staged approach across severa countries, focusing on specific strategic areas, ie transport, food production.
Why should the uk bear all the brunt in getting to net ZERO , cutting the whole uk net output of co2- when the affects of which would be negligible -since the whole uk contribution co2 output is less than 1%. I don’t think people realise how painful it’s going to be. Energy is everything, and affects the cost of everything- food, travel, logistics, heating, aviation
Surely it would be more impactive and less damaging to spread the reductions across a number of countries, why are we so desperate to jump head first into this, with no caution. It doesn’t make any sense.
Maybe instead of grandstanding about how we have to take the lead, maybe we should consider how we will afford to put the heating on this winter?

Leading by example does not work on the international stage - its a brutal messy world out there.

There are direct emissions and indirect emissions. Think how much is emitted in China, India, etc. making goods for the UK market. We transfer a lot of our emissions by buying in goods made elsewhere.

By leading on implementing measures to reduce our output of CO2, the intention is that we'll take a lead in developing the technologies that we can then sell to others.