Met Gordon Brown when he was PM when working for the Home Office at the Labour Conference in Brighton, at the time all day drinking laws in pubs had just been bought in, got introduced to him, made a quip about all day drinking, he didn't laugh.....
"China’s emissions now exceed all developed nations combined. But let’s cull cows, ban gas boilers, enforce ULEZ, dump 40 million tons of wind turbine blades in landfills by 2050, use electric car batteries with cobalt mined by child slaves in Congo."
Finally some common sense, we contribute less than 2% of 'emissions' so what we do will have no bearing. Let people make their own decisions if they want heat pumps or electric cars. And it's all for nothing as China/India/Africa/Russia don't give a feck about net zero and who are we to preach...
On the TGV from Marseille to Paris as I type this after going there for 2 RWC2023 games. Stayed near the old port area, no trouble, beautiful area full of quayside bars, restaurants, museums etc.
Great metro system, if taking it to the game get off at the last station Sainte-Marguerite Dromel...