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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: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @10:48AM
Does everything in the world revolve around conspiracies for you? Seriously, WTF is the matter with your brain? You think the rich have some sort of penis envy of you being able to fly in economy to the next state? Did they have same penis envy when it was buses or cars instead?
Everything has become some weird ass conspiracy to you. Maybe try to learn there are actually problems that are caused when 7 billion people try to poop in a single lake. Maybe it works just fine with 1000, but not so well with 7,000,000,000. Ever thought that the Earth is a FINITE planet? That your live in a completely different environment from the ones of your grandparents? That we are literally heading for a shitstorm of our own making? And all you can come up with is a poor, shitty conspiracy about fucking PENIS ENVY!
You want facts?? Can you handle facts?
1. The rich own the companies that sell you services - like airlines, pool installers and construction companies. They make money when then you manage to squeeze your fat ass into economy. They make much more if you manage to upgrade yourself to wider seats.
2. The rich DO NOT like Carbon Taxes and the like - it causes uncertainty in their business regarding next month cash flow, you know, to them.
3. If you cannot afford something, the rich actually lose money.
4. The world is changing because we are using the air as a toilet.
5. CO2 is a pollutant - https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/mlo.html [noaa.gov]
Fertilizer is not a pollutant until it ends up in your drinking water and causes dead zones in the lakes and oceans that keep increasing. CO2 is the same. I was born when CO2 was 330ppm. Now it's almost 420. Remember when it made the news that it's over 400?
6. It's a big fucking problem.
You want real conspiracies? Oh wait, probably can't handle them so better invent Pizza-gate.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/01/edward-snowdon-conspiracy-theories-belief-powerlessness [theguardian.com]
This is exactly why you invent the bullshit you do. You somehow believe that someone wants to take your "high luxuries".... Reality is, no one wants to take your shit. Even better if you stopped throwing it in the hole in the ground and polluting your grand-kids ground water. Maybe then they will not have to invent a conspiracy why grandpa conspired with the 'elites' to poison my drinking water.