The EU proposes slashing pollution 90% by 2040
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The EU proposes slashing pollution 90% by 2040
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Re: The EU proposes slashing pollution 90% by 2040
#2Proposing things is free after all, and few of the politicians of 2024 will be there in 2040 to be called about it, and even if they are, they can blame it on previous office holders and whatever...
This is as "trustworthy" as the "Only sell EVs by 2035" EUs proposal, and Musk's mission to Mars.
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#38% of it is from carbon capture or offsetting, which is bullshit. 82% reduction from 1990 levels is only 2.5x reduction in 10 years (2030-2040) from easily achievable "Fit for 55" plan, which is currently seen as below-inertial scenario and actual 2030 emissions are going to come out lower. So nothing impossible here.
CO2 emissions from power production decreased by 46% in EU in only 7 years (2016-2023) and are in freefall now. Just as an example.
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#5Bullshit. EU moving production to other countries is not to slash pollution. I know there will be academic explanations to convince us this is the way but once common people start to face real life problems (energy cost, food security issues, layoffs because of industry relocations, etc) they will rise the flag of revolution.
Unless this is the expected result...
Re: The EU proposes slashing pollution 90% by 2040
#6By "pollution" they mean "net greenhouse gas emissions".
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#7Read that as population
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#8I bett it is going to involve more moving numbers on a spreadsheet than actual reductions in the real world.
Re: The EU proposes slashing pollution 90% by 2040
#9Bullshit. EU moving production to other countries is not to slash pollution. I know there will be academic explanations to convince us this is the way but once common people start to face real life problems (energy cost, food security issues, layoffs because of industry relocations, etc) they will rise the flag of revolution. Unless this is the expected result...
I wonder what you suspect the effects of widespread sustained climate change will be? Of the 'real life' problems coming down the pipe, energy cost, food security, and industrial disturbances are the happy, rosy ones.
Re: The EU proposes slashing pollution 90% by 2040
#10Proposing things is free after all, and few of the politicians of 2024 will be there in 2040 to be called about it, and even if they are, they can blame it on previous office holders and whatever... This is as "trustworthy" as the "Only sell EVs by 2035" EUs proposal, and Musk's mission to Mars.
OTOH, it could be as trustworthy as the Montreal protocol of 1987 which agreed to reduce CFC production by 50% by 1999.
Instead production in signatory countries hit 0 by 1996.
Measured scepticism is rational. Blind scepticism isn't.