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Energy ⚡️ Waste ♻️ Transport 🚲 Public Realm 🌳 Words in @BigIssue, @ArchitectsJrnal etc @ClimateEmergUK Advisor. Enquiries - [email protected]
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"Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet." — Carl Sagan
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In the Netherlands, where the Dutch invest in safe cycling, the over-65s cycle around a quarter of their journeys, while the over-80s cycle around 10% of theirs. Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and cycle lanes don't 'restrict freedom', they expand it. https://t.co/TL0l0HCWpQ
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It's been quite something to see one of the world's leading climate scientists, James Hansen, being vilified the past six years for presenting data showing the rapid acceleration of global and regional warming, associated with continued greenhouse gas emissions and rapid
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Renewables routinely generate more than half of U.K electricity. They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators. Leadership is knowing, showing, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
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Utter nonsense. Ofgem - the U.K energy regulator - puts policy costs under the current duel fuel price cap at £215 a year. 2/3 of that £215 is for net zero, 1/3 is to support the fuel poor. So, essential decarbonisation costs the average household 39p a day.
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We’ve known for years that road user pricing will be necessary to address the fiscal hole left by the decline of fuel duty as we transition to electric vehicles. We’re already enormously subsidising drivers, and heavier EVs will only exacerbate this if we don’t act.
The UK has just introduced a per-mile tax for driving your car. To start with it’s just 3p per mile and just for electric cars. Going to visit your family who live 3 hours away will now cost you £10 extra every time. But then it will obviously become 5p and then 10p and then
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Wait until Ned finds out about the relationship between human-induced global warming, aerosol termination shocks, and decreasing planetary cloud albedo…
There is now robust evidence published in the scientific literature that the UN and Antonio Guterres in particular are deceiving the World by falsely claiming that recent warming was caused by human carbon emissions, when in reality, it was a result of decreasing planetary cloud
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Personally, I think growth - beyond a certain point (see Wilkinson & Pickett) - is an overrated metric of economic health, but he did ask the question.
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In an economy where consumption is 65% of GDP, it's a good idea to ensure working people have enough money to spend. This is especially true of those at the lower end of the income scale who spend a larger share of every pound they earn than those with higher earnings.
Any socialist mathematicians on here want to explain how raising minimum and national living wages promotes growth ?
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The U.K’s guilty men want you to forget that the 2008 bankers’ crisis, 14 years of austerity, Brexit, and Covid failures are the cause of our woes. Instead, they want you to think renewable energy, which costs your household 47p a day, is the problem. They think you’re idiots.
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There is nothing arbitrary about net zero emissions targets, which are based on the work of thousands of scientists. The world meeting these targets is life and death for millions. 0.6% of the U.K’s electricity came from coal in 2024 and European Coal imports are falling.
While Europe closes down its own coal mines to meet arbitrary Net Zero targets, in 2023 the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands imported 23.1 million tonnes of coal, mostly from Colombia, South Africa, Australia and the USA, for use in Europe's coal fired power plants and steel
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You’re being played like a fiddle, lads. https://t.co/ScfCu3wfLa
The U.K’s guilty men want you to forget that the 2008 bankers’ crisis, 14 years of austerity, Brexit, and Covid failures are the cause of our woes. Instead, they want you to think renewable energy, which costs your household 47p a day, is the problem. They think you’re idiots.
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The U.K’s guilty men want you to forget that the 2008 bankers’ crisis, 14 years of austerity, Brexit, and Covid failures are the cause of our woes. Instead, they want you to think renewable energy, which costs your household 47p a day, is the problem. They think you’re idiots.
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Renewables routinely generate more than half of U.K electricity. They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators. Leadership is knowing, showing, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
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The fact is, men like Richard Tice want Britain to fail. The worse it gets for us, the better it gets for Reform. That’s how they see it. That’s why they spend their lives talking Britain down.
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Global warming deniers and fossil fuel shills in the West spent decades supporting Big Oil’s attempts to kill the electric car. Now, they blame ‘gender neutral corporate speech’ for the industrial decline they caused. If you fall for their lies, you’ll fall for anything.
While German and European carmakers are laser focused on gender neutral corporate speech and pride months, Chinese BYD is building a factory that will be larger than San Francisco when completed. Most Germans don’t understand what’s coming their way yet. Good luck.
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Welcome to the Siemens turbine factory in Hull, BRITAIN, Richard. Skilled BRITISH labour manufactures the largest handmade objects in the world there. Wind power alone directly provides 20,000 jobs in BRITAIN, against 26,000 for the whole of oil and gas. Have some shame man.
“Green” jobs = Chinese jobs No British jobs nor British Steel in Chinese wind turbines
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Transport for London is the largest public transport operator in the world to operate without subsidy. The Singaporean public transport system receive 30% public subsidy (some $2 billion). The Right hate the state, but want all the good things it delivers…🤔
Off peak tube tickets cheapest: London £2.70 Singapore £0.27 Ten times more expensive in London Singaporeans earn more than double the UK and you pay 4% tax on £40,000 income .
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For the Right, the ideal public service broadcaster is one that deletes stories about the White House being inhabited by a Russian asset.
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Many cannot even comprehend that the postwar economy in Britain - and in other European countries as well - was effectively planned. It was more similar to the Chinese economy of today than to the British economy of today. Since the planning stopped it has gone to the wall. 🇬🇧
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