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EU unveils sweeping climate change plan:
The European Union has announced a raft of climate change proposals aimed at pushing it towards its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.
A dozen draft proposals, which still need to be approved by the bloc's 27 member states and the EU parliament, were announced on Wednesday.
They include plans to tax jet fuel and effectively ban the sale of petrol and diesel powered cars within 20 years.
The proposals, however, could face years of negotiations.
The plans triggered serious infighting at the European Commission, the bloc's administrative arm, as the final tweaks were being made, sources told the AFP news agency.
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She's so tough she won't take 'yes' for an answer.
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday July 18 2021, @02:43PM (8 children)
2050 is already too little too late even if the entire world did this and followed the plan to a tee.
Now, this is just the EU, the proposal will be bogged down in red tape for years, the member states will then have to translate the EU directives in their respective bodies of law for a few more years, then they'll fall behind and everybody will go "Oops, better luck next year" year after year. And they'll fail to convince the biggest polluters on Earth to follow their lead.
I'm not just pessimistic for no good reason: remember the Paris Agreement of 2016? Lots of hope then, lots of people celebrating and congratulating themselves over a ground-breaking agreement - although in reality it was kind of half-assed to begin with, but okay, it was a good effort. What came out of it concretely? Nada. Zilch. It was all a big wet firecracker. When time came to implement it, everybody went "Uuh, that's costly, so... not so much".
Sadly, I don't think climate change is avoidable at this point. It would take an ultra-authoritative world-spanning regime taking drastic measures to stop it at this point, and obviously nobody wants that kind of remedy because it'll kill the patient.
So my opinion is, this is all a bunch of feel-good measures. "Look, we do something for the environment." Surely the people involved in these talks must realize this before even going into the building, or they're all hopelessly naive.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 18 2021, @02:50PM
>> What came out of it concretely? Nada.
Wrong! Without the Paris Accord, AGW would have resulted in the end of mankind in 2019. With it, we got a few extra years so we could enjoy COVID.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by turgid on Sunday July 18 2021, @05:39PM
You're right. But it is still possible to mitigate the worst of its effects.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 18 2021, @06:20PM
Global Jewry is working with the Chinese to implement all this touchy-feely bullshit to try to get Western nations to give up their energy independence, soften them up a bit for easy subjugation while making them dependent on cheap Chinese batteries and solar panels and other cheap shit. And as another user pointed out, they get complete fucking passes for hypocrisy with the private Jet-related stuff being exempt of extra taxes.
You don't find it to be coincidental that China and India are never mentioned in these "climate" agreements that list all the modern conveniences that Western nations must give up? Such as well-rounded diets (starve the brains to make them less effective and more malleable), individual homes (destruction of privacy and the family unit), older driver-driven automobiles (freedom of movement), the independence of nuclear power, free speech (criticism of government, questioning of hoax pandemics/lockdowns and the efficacy/hazards of compulsory vaccination)? All in the name of "the environment?"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by quietus on Sunday July 18 2021, @06:27PM
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 18 2021, @06:49PM (2 children)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 18 2021, @09:05PM (1 child)
Of course not. Book learnin' is fer Commies, homosexuals, and Europeans, but I repeat myself. Twice. That is seriously how large chunks of the US think.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @09:15PM
I don't recall my mother warning me about any girls, except a chit-chat about venereal disease and pregnancy. It was a condom-centric kind of talk.
I can only conclude that Azuma has a loudly ticking biological clock and syphilis.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @10:56AM
Remember the Kyoto Protocol? I thought it would be like what EU is proposing now, with border tariffs and forcing importers to adjust. Reality, fuck all happened. Oil usage went from 60m barrels per day to 90m.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol [wikipedia.org]