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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) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @01:52PM
okay here's the "nutshell" ver.:
we found 10 barrels of energy. today we used up maybe 5 but we found out that the waste from using barrels have to go somewhere (socalled climate change).
so instead of deciding to use the 5 remaining barrels to find and aggresively switch to something else, we decide to limit how to "pollute more controlled", thus limiting growth and declare with the strock of a pen (" the law") that we have finished our "fossile fuel based work of art" and and further usage of remaining barrels is for preservation of this "museum".