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Colin Boyle's avatar

“…if the government’s environmental commitments have genuinely made a third runway impossible, that feels like a good litmus test suggesting those commitments need to be rethought.”

It’s this kind of scientific illiteracy that commits us to the path that risks the collapse of global civilisation.

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Archie Hall's avatar

Hard to argue that Britain--which has halved per capita emissions since 2000 and is now below the global average, isn't already doing more than most to keep civilisation afloat, no? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?focus=~GBR

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Colin Boyle's avatar

Physics doesn’t care whether you do “more than most”.

Physics only cares whether you do enough - which we are not.

https://bsky.app/profile/sioldridge.bsky.social/post/3lftsqbuor22e

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