Ed Miliband di dire ai parlamentari che rifiutano le politiche nette zero che stanno tradendo le generazioni future
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/14/ed-miliband-net-zero-betraying-future-generations
di JRugman
Ed Miliband di dire ai parlamentari che rifiutano le politiche nette zero che stanno tradendo le generazioni future
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/14/ed-miliband-net-zero-betraying-future-generations
di JRugman
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Betraying future generations seems to be a national pastime here.
Could say that about a lot of policies they’re not taking forward
The irony in this comment ! The youth of today are having their futures absolutely screwed by current decisions being made……
And they won’t care. Did he think they were going to hang their heads after his rousing speech and have a change of heart?
The UK is not driving climate change alone. Yet one could argue we need to ‘set an example’.
This is naive. India Brazil China Russia (USA?) are industrial countries still and contribute most emissions. They aren’t gonna stop because the UK is setting an example
Edit: there’s no way I’m replying to all these but go ahead and debate each other… lots of good points made, some less good
I totally just read the headline, I’m not anti renewable but I am anti not drilling for our own oil while continuing to BUY AND USE oil.
By all means develop renewable energy sources
Remember: if you don’t flush the countries future down the toilet to make Ed and friends feel good then you are betraying future generations.
Global Net Zero is a good goal. Domestic net zero is irrelevant nonsense, and I have literally never seen a single argument for why I should care or why it matters all that much whether the UK is 1% or 0.5% or 0% of global emissions. These are rounding errors.
Net zero will also lead to energy diversity and independence. We need to be pushing both narratives.
This clown is throwing us into fuel chaos when there is no reason to. We could get our gas from the north sea, employ thousands of people in doing it and still reduce oil extraction and exports [not imports though]. Instead we buy gas from Norway and wood from everywhere else to pretend we are Net Zero, we are Not Zero and will never be so; this is politicising the energy stability of the UK for dogma and idealism, from a failed leader who should never have used the unions to rob his more able brother of the job. Yes lets move away from ICE vehicles but we ain’t moving from gas boilers for air pumps that don’t work in our climate and for our existing housing stock. We are ruled by idiots. Also, yes, Tories are just as bad.
We need to drop it, your taxes are going to increase
Well none of them lost a general election to Cameron with all his clever Brexit ideas.
I’ve given up on hoping the world governments will take climate change seriously. The solutions are available now, it just needs the money putting behind it and for politicians to stop being fucking cowards and stand up to the industries that lobby against change. I have 3 children, and I am terrified that my generation will see the transition to a world of climate chaos, and my children will be the ones to ultimately suffer long term.
Daily reminder that there would be almost zero renewables investment in the UK if it wasn’t for the government paying for it and guaranteeing stupidly high prices for energy the renewables don’t even generate.
Because economically hamstringing ourselves on a global scale isn’t betraying future generations. I always feel that people don’t realise just how large the impact of these policies are from the top down, they serve as the basis for much of our infrastructure and construction woes.
I mean we’ve completely fucked them harder and much faster than climate change ever will with the ungodly amount of debt we’ve built up.
Lots of wringing of hands from the right wing press “who will pay for it” “it costs xxx” – twenty years later – same problem just a hundred times bigger and equally more expensive.
Same mentality that sees the same British public grumbling that 14 years of decay can’t be fixed overnight.
Ditto the lazy media who think a country is run by gut reaction daily polling of the public – a pretty lousy way to run a country. Most people can’t think beyond next week never mind next generations.