This could prove to be one of those badly needed instances where cold, hard reality begins to set in and cooler heads prevail. Back in 2019, Scotland’s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon made her country the first in the world to declare a “climate emergency” and shifted the government’s priorities to address it. She set forth an ambitious set of goals that would slash greenhouse gas emissions in her country by 75% by 2030, with a final target of reaching “net zero” by 2045. But Scotland failed to reach nearly every annual goal that was set and last month their Climate Change Committee (CCC) declared that the 2030 goal was simply “unreachable.” They’re still talking about goals further down the line, but the policies that would be required to achieve them are simply unsustainable without wrecking the economy. (BBC)
The final goal of reaching “net-zero” by 2045 will remain, but…
