So, some facts, Lloyds the Chemist, which used to have a larger footprint than Boots, has closed many of its Chemist outlets down, many places don't have a Post Office anymore, indeed, many places are now without a doctors surgery, so afraid to say, for the poor and elderly who can just about afford to keep an economically viable old banger running its essential - an old banger that returns 40 MPG being more ecologically friendly as most of the CO2 release was done during the manufacture, be it making the steel, making the engine or the cheap, plastic interior.
Again, we've already passed the 1.5 degree threshold, so, to penalise the poor for the failings of the rich since the 1990 Paris Agreement I'm afraid is really too much given the amount of additional CO2 we are discussing in the UK is small as far as small, low CC engines are concerned.
As for rising tides, well, where I reside it is two meters above sea level and we already suffer flooding due to excessive precipitation - we have no cars or buses on the island, you walk or use a bicycle. Unlike the UK, especially in places like the South Wales valley's, we still have a public doctors surgery and pharmacy, a vibrant high street selling most daily items one requires and electricity far cheaper than what my folks pay. Indeed, if property prices and rents were lower, it would be paradise, but Pontypool and the hundreds of shuttered towns and villages across the UK, life ain't paradise.
And, may I also inform you that the UK has already de-industrialised and that actual energy used is lower today than in 1970. Obviously our manufacturing capability being off-shored. Maybe focus on mad consumerism and cheap, useless imports brought over by shipping that contributes greatly to CO2 emissions - one reason I push de-growth, which, if applied correctly to the UK would actually increase local economic activity in a far more sustainable manner than today.
But to penalise the poor, elderly and disabled for the ecological destruction caused by throw away capitalism is really taking the biscuit I'm afraid and does bugger all to reduce global emissions. Indeed, have you ever calculated how much CO2 would be released if the UK's delapidated infrastructure were to be in any way improved, never mind totally renewed, far better to tax to high heaven out of unnecessary overseas vacations and tax the buggers who burn the most FFS and release the most CO2, and it ain't the Western poor I'm afraid, its the bloody rich!
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