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Not Zero

How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won't Even Save the Planet)

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Yazan: Ross Clark
Seslendiren: Ben Onwukwe
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The British government has embarked on an ambitious and legally-binding climate change target: reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2050. The Net Zero policy was subject to almost no parliamentary or public scrutiny, and is universally approved by our political class. But what will its consequences be?

Ross Clark argues that it is a terrible mistake, an impractical hostage to fortune which will have massive downsides. Achieving the target is predicated on the rapid development of technologies that are either non-existent, highly speculative or untested. Clark shows that efforts to achieve the target will inevitably result in a huge hit to living standards, which will clobber the poorest hardest, and gift a massive geopolitical advantage to hostile superpowers such as China and Russia. The unrealistic and rigid timetable it imposes could also result in our committing to technologies which turn out to be ineffective, all while distracting ourselves from the far more important objective of adaptation.

This hard-hitting polemic provides a timely critique of a potentially devastating political consensus which could hobble Britain's economy, cost billions and not even be effective.

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Great work. The recommendations at the bd - to drop legal Net Zero by 2050 and innovate & adapt are sensible and rational but will take political courage that I don’t see on the horizon in this government or the next. If you are a climate catastrophist - then the recommendation of switching to a consumption based carbon reduction model is also compelling - though that too has massive implications for the cost of everything albeit re-incentivising much ‘on shoring’ of agriculture, manufacturing and also likely fossil fuel production in the UK.

Thoughtful, detailed and well prepared book.

Great summary of the absurdity of legal Net Zero and it’s perverse incentives

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Well researched and balanced discussion on the impacts of unfettered net zero policy. A pleasant change from the pseudo cultist opinions proffered as news.

Highly recommended and a great eye opener

Excellent balanced discussion

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Fact based arguments suggesting a more coordinated, collaborative effort to tackle the changing weather we see.
Some quite funny, tongue in cheek lines like ‘the government outsourcing flood control to fury creatures (beavers)’.
If you want to have a more bipartisan view on the climate, then listen to this book.
False Alarm is also a realistic, well written book.

Reality raises its head

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I would suggest this book should be in the curriculum. There is no doubt about the warming world, there is doubt as to how we tackle the potential effects of this. I enjoyed this book and I have learned alot. We all need to be informed, but informed in a balanced manner, much like how this book is written.

Keep an open mind

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I found the book extremely well presented. A danger of confirmation bias, but I like to read both sides of an argument. Sadly the BBC seems to disagree, and has opted to accept man made climate change as a disaster that must be stopped, no matter the cost. (or stupidity of the countermeasures.)
Of similar vein are the books of Christopher Booker, Patrick Moore (he of Greenpeace) and Unstoppable Climate change.

balance

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