“…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.
“…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.
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
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