Time to face the truth: UK aviation, as it exists today, and tackling the climate crisis are incompatible, says former Guardian environment editor John Vidal
, and 100% by 2050. The government is relying mostly on techno-fixes and imagines a heat pump for every house, electric cars on every drive, better quality housing, mass tree planting and farming reform – but above all, it expects the market to magically deliver the necessary cuts. It is obviously make-believe, and groups includingand Client Earth are now taking ministers to court, saying the strategy is too theoretical and is not properly backed up with policies, money or commitment.
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